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Re: LiveTV question
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2008-03-29 00:41:04
> Sorry.  Myth won't allow this.  Myth, a Digital Video
/Recorder/
> considers recordings to be more important than LiveTV,
so it will use
> any available capture card when time comes to record a
show /you asked
> it to record/.

Yep. This is EXACTLY what I want it to do... just wondered
if there  
was some flag somewhere to set a card to be livetv only, for
my  
girlfriend's sake mostly.

> So, Dan's approach is the closest thing to what you
want.  Or, you can
> teach your family members when they get a "all
tuners busy" popup when
> trying to enter LiveTV how to go into Watch Recordings
and delete (and
> allow re-record) one of the currently recording shows
(which, I'm sure
> they think are far less important than whatever
garba^H^H^H^H^His on
> other channels--the channels that are showing shows
that your  
> recording
> rules say are lower priority than any of the shows that
Myth was  
> trying
> to record).

Yeap.

> However, as with a significant number of issues users
have, the  
> problem
> you're trying to solve (not having an available capture
card) can be
> solved by simply getting an appropriate number of
capture cards.

I've got 2 HD cards. I should get a couple more, but would
need to  
set up a reasonable array first.

Thanks.

~Jon
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