[mythtvnz] 0.21 and MultiRec stability

[Steve Hodge]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Greg Brackley <
lists-mythtv-nz at lucidsolutions.co.nz> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steve Hodge
>
> > The only relevance of channel number is that is the number you type to
> > bring up the channel in Live TV. It doesn't affect scheduling at all. If
> > you want to exclude the DVB-T channels from scheduling then you
> > need to give them a different call sign and/or make sure there is no
> > guide data for those channels.
> >
> > Alternatively you could give those tuners a very low priority.
>
> So this is changing the input connection 'Input priority' (on the second
> page of the setup wizard). I've elevated the two DVB-S cards to '10'.
>

Yes, that should sort it out.

What do the input groups do? ('input group 1' and 'input group 2'). Each
> card seems to have magically been assigned an input group. In the context
> of
> multi-rec, is this mechanism by which the virtual-tuners are bonded
> together?  I have found very little documentation on this, just [1].
>

The documentation is a little sparse, unfortunately. Often the (main MythTV
users) mailing list archive is a better source.

I believe the input groups stuff is designed to handle situations where
external constraints restrict your recording capabilities. For example, when
Freeview was using horizontal polarity transponders it was not possible to
simultaneously tune a Freeview channel with a DVB card and a Sky box. You
could have put the DVB card input and the Sky capture card input in the same
input group to prevent both being used at the same time. I doubt you have
the sort of setup that requires input groups - and I expect you'd know it if
you did!

Cheers,
Steve
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