Multi Recording Padding Not Working

[sub]

I know why it can happen, but I havnt been able to do anything about it at this stage. It is on my list to do for the future though.

[Jaggy]

I know why it can happen, but I havnt been able to do anything about it at this stage. It is on my list to do for the future though.

Could this also affect analog recordings?

When I had multi-record selected for my digital cards it was cutting off the post padding & therefore the ends of my analog recordings, not good for the WAF as it always seemed to do it for her programmes.

[kylebrophy]

this happened when trying to record on TVNZ 7-7.30pm (tuner 1, padding -2 and +5)) then 7.30-8pm on TV3 from 7.30-8pm
3 tuners in system, all tuned to same channels, can change tuner order and get same problem.
TV3 always stops all other recording to start its own recording with multi-record. Doesn't happen with just TS Mux and no multi

stopped recording bang TVNZ on 7.30 so no padding, and the program ran over by a few minutes


Why doesn't TV3 recording just take next available tuners?

ive also noticed that my setup does lose its padding when there are several recordings happening (e.g. TV1 and TV3). I have 2 digital tuners - so that should mean that no matter what the DVB-S cards should not lose paddings as in worst case it should assign each DVB-S card to each satellite transponder (of which there are only 2 for NZ Freeview).

I could be wrong here - but even from a quick look at the pending.log file - there is no load balancing (to allow padding) across the available satellite tuner cards i have.

[griffy]

As a work around I have set tuner 1 up for only TV3/TV4 only and then tuner 2 for TVNZ/Prime only, leaving tuner 3 for all channels (as this is used for LiveTV) and turned multi back on.
If this can't be fixed I might just get another tuner and set that up for Prime etc.

You really need multi when trying to 'back-to-back' record or lots of tuners to achieve padding. Even with 3 tuners and no multi I can't record say a back to back on TVNZ and TV3 at the same time with padding as it requires 4 tuners! You lose padding on 1 of the programs - the wifes one usually

Gotta love multi

[MCEabused]

Bump for V1.4.7
Multirecord with multiple tuners fails to switch to a free tuner when back to back recordings are scheduled on different frequencies
Gbpvr drops the programs padding and switches recording to the new frequency using the same "in use" tuner, not the free one
eg back to back recordings BDA DVB-T on a HVR2200 dual tuner
2009-09-10 12:00:00.062 VERBOSE [5] New recording in back to back uses different frequency, so stopping previous recording(s)
2009-09-10 12:00:00.078 VERBOSE [5] Stopping recording oid:3
2009-09-10 12:00:00.078 VERBOSE [5] Stopping multi record: 1300

1 Multi record works fine when the back to back scheduled recordings are on the same mux
2 Multiple tuners both work correctly when the scheduled recordings that over-lapp in EPG times, are on different muxes.

It seams you can have multi-rec or multi-tuners but not both together without quirks

Really do love them both

[griffy]

Yes problems occurs when a program is ending (say 7.30pm) and a new program is starting (say 7.30pm) and they are on different mux. Program one will not pad and tuner will stop to start new recording @7.30pm. Even when tuners are 'free'.
This doesn't occur if program one is scheduled to end at say 7.45pm, the new program just uses a 'free' tuner.
If a new program is to follow program one on the same mux, after stopping for the other mux program this 'back-to-back' program then uses a 'free' tuner. If only the different mux program could see the 'free' tuner then 'back-to-back' with padding could occur.

Is there a way to say make the total recording including padding be forced, so the tuner is 'unavailable' until padding is finished. So GBPVR thinks the program runs until 7.35pm ?

<TryToHonourPaddingIfPossible>true</TryToHonourPaddingIfPossible>

<ForcePaddingAlways>True</ForcePaddingAlways>

[martint123]

Does this one near the ones above have any effect? ISTR it was one to tweak in the past.

<PreferAlternatingCaptureSources>true</PreferAlternatingCaptureSources>

[griffy]

Does this one near the ones above have any effect? ISTR it was one to tweak in the past.

<PreferAlternatingCaptureSources>true</PreferAlternatingCaptureSources>

mines set to fase

who that not prefer 'back-to-back' recording to start on second tuner? SUB?

I'll give it a go, once

[griffy]

seems to break multi-record a wee bit. Some programs on same mux go to different tuners. Might get another tuner this weekend, 4 should give me 'street-creed'

[martint123]

seems to break multi-record a wee bit. Some programs on same mux go to different tuners. Might get another tuner this weekend, 4 should give me 'street-creed'

Pity - it was an option from before multi-record was available and helped force alternate tuners for back to back recordings to ensure the padding was honoured.......... AH well......