<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Aaron Whitehouse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@whitehouse.org.nz">lists@whitehouse.org.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I thought that the idea of priorities was that they were used by<br>
preference, but should never cause a conflict?</blockquote><div><br>No, that's not how it works. Priorities are used to decide what to schedule first. The scheduler doesn't try multiple permutations to find a schedule that records the maximum number of programs - it's basically a single pass algorithm that schedules things in priority order. The "Reschedule Higher Priorities" option changes this slightly, see <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Scheduler#Reschedule_Higher_Priorities">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Scheduler#Reschedule_Higher_Priorities</a> for details.<br>
</div><br><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">With my priorities applied (3, 0 and 2, respectively), this is the
result:<br>
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DVB0 (4) The Good Wife: Running 3 - TV3<br>
Tue Jul 6, 2010 (09:28 PM) 1 hr 7 mins<br><br>
Conflict True Stories: The Worlds Heaviest Man 9 - PRIME<br>
Tue Jul 6, 2010 (09:38 PM) 1 hr 7 mins<br><br>
DVB1 (8) V 2 - TV2<br>
Tue Jul 6, 2010 (10:28 PM) 1 hr 7 mins<br>
===========<br></blockquote><div><br>The scheduler first schedules the highest priority show, The Good Wife, on the first available tuner - 4. It then schedules the next highest priority show, V, on the first available turner - 8. It can't use 5, 6, or 7 because they are tied to the MediaWorks multiplex. So now virtual tuners 4-7 are locked to MediaWorks and 8-11 are locked to TVNZ. Prime is on the Kordia multiplex.<br>
</div><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
There is nothing relevant before or after (I realise hard padding<br>
affects scheduling). This should be able to record all three as follows:<br>
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DVB0 (4) The Good Wife: Running 3 - TV3<br>
Tue Jul 6, 2010 (09:28 PM) 1 hr 7 mins<br><br>
DVB0 (5, 6 or 7) True Stories: The Worlds Heaviest Man 9 -
PRIME<br>
Tue Jul 6, 2010 (09:38 PM) 1 hr 7 mins<br><br>
DVB1 (8) V 2 - TV2<br>
Tue Jul 6, 2010 (10:28 PM) 1 hr 7 mins<br>
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<br>Prime and 3 are on different multiplexes and can't be recorded by the same physical tuner.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div>