[mythtvnz] MultiRec Turned Off?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Worthington" <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] MultiRec Turned Off?


> On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:35:45 +1300, you 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?
>
> Does "Information Center/System Status/Tuner Status" show all 20
> tuners?

Yes

> If so, then multirec should be working.

Yes.

I wonder if there is
> a setting somewhere for the maximum number of recordings that can
> happen at once.

I've not found one.

I am sure it would be possible to record so much that
> a single hard disk could not cope with the traffic, so such a setting
> would be a useful thing, especially if it could be set per hard disk.

This issue arises before the event, in scheduling, before the HDD and Hardware has had a chance to be tested.  The HDD is a 3G SATA 
with plenty of space, I doubt that 5 would max that out.  The scheduling for some reason seems limited to one channel / one tuner. 
Somewhere....