Unused Tuners

[jcole998]

I believe that there is still something wrong with tuner use and pre/post-padding.

The log.2 shows at 19:59 on 6/30:
- Tuner 21 was assigned to record "Burden of Truth."
- Tuner 22 was assigned to record "Good Witch."

at 20:59:
- Tuner 32 was assigned to record "Big Little Lies."

At this point, recording "City on a Hill" should start recording and could have been assigned to tuner 23 but it wasn't. Instead, NextPVR waited until the recording on tuner 21 entered its post-padding interval causing the loss of post-padding on "Burden of Truth and the pre-padding on "City on a Hill."

I know you've explained that any padding is expendable. But I'd like to know why it is not better to honor any padding when a perfectly good tuner is available for use. Wouldn't it be better to test for an available tuner before cutting off any padding?

Thank you.

[mvallevand]

At this point, recording "City on a Hill" should start recording and could have been assigned to tuner 23 but it wasn't.

No it couldn't you were using tuner 23 @9

2019-06-30 18:34:00.283 [DEBUG][8] About to start recording (59693 on 23): I:\NextPVR-Capture\Default_20190630_18352135.ts...
...
2019-06-30 21:17:24.355 [DEBUG][40] CancelRecording(59693)

Martin

[jcole998]

I took another look at the log, Martin, and you are correct. Tuner 23 was in use at 9 and I'd forgotten why: The NASCAR race only started at 6:34pm after rain delay so I started a manual recording which used tuner 23. The race went way past the 9pm start time and was manually cancelled at 9:17pm.

NextPVR got it right. My apologies.:o

Thanks for looking at this.

JC

[mvallevand]

I know you like to research this issue so I good quick search on the logs is " on 23" or whatever device you are looking.

Martin

[jcole998]

Yeah...I use a filter on the log to show only relevant lines for recording and I missed one showing tuner 23 being canceled at 21:17. Filter fixed.

Thanks again.