[mythtvnz] MultiRec Turned Off?

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:46:47 +1300, you wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Tortise" <tortise at paradise.net.nz>
>To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
>Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 4:17 PM
>Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] MultiRec Turned Off?
>
>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Nick Rout" <nick.rout at gmail.com>
>> To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 4:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] MultiRec Turned Off?
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>>> I have 2 500T, comprising 4 tuners each with 5 virtual tuners set, yet for some reason multirec does not seem to work, that is I
>>> can
>>> only seem to get one channel from each tuner. There are 20 encoders in mythweb. I cannot find a setting that turns off multirec.
>>> Tonight I have a recording conflict as I am trying to record 5 overlapping things.... I cannot find a setting about this, as best
>>> I
>>> can tell setting 2 or more virtual tuners turns multirec on and nothing should turn it off then? (Mythbuntu 23565)
>>>
>>> Can anyone suggest how its turned itself off or where to look to move this forwards?
>>
>>>Multirec is turned on by setting more than one recording per real
>> tuner, ie you have it turned on already.
>>
>>>How are your 5 recordings distributed through the various multiplexes?
>>
>
>My tuners are named T0, T1, T2 and T3.  From Mythweb "Upcoming Recordings"
>
>1) Conflict   Doc Martin   1 - TV One   Sun Feb 21, 2010 (08:30 PM)   1 hr
> 2)   T1  Jaws 3  4 - C4  Sun Feb 21, 2010 (08:30 PM)  2 hrs 5 mins
> 3)   T0  ??Norbit  2 - TV2  Sun Feb 21, 2010 (08:30 PM)  2 hrs
> 4)   T2  Sunday Feature: Hidden  5 - Maori Television  Sun Feb 21, 2010 (08:30 PM)  2 hrs
> 5)   T3  Prime Presents: Last Chance To See  10 - PRIME  Sun Feb 21, 2010 (08:35 PM)  1 hr 15 mins
>
>1 and 3 should be on one multiplex  (48)
>2 the 2nd (50)
>4 and 5 the third (59)
>
>Makes me wonder if my channel setup is not correct, I put it up at http://imagebin.ca/view/nxWwOByI.html

The channel setup shown by mythweb is not complete - it misses out the
vital bits for DVB-T: mplexid and serviceid.  To see them, you will
need to do a bit of SQL.  The following presumes that you are running
a recent mythbuntu.  Make a .sh file with this in it:

#!/bin/bash

# Run MySQL to access the mythconfig database.

source /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt
mysql -u $DBUserName -p$DBPassword -h $DBHostName $DBName

and chmod it to be executable.  Run it and you will get a mysql
prompt.  I find it is best to do this from a xterm, so that you can
use a very wide screen.  Then paste in this command and see what the
mplexid and serviceid shows:

select
chanid,channum,freqid,sourceid,callsign,name,xmltvid,mplexid,serviceid
from channel;