Non-overlapping with 2 tuners and padding

[kevbo]

I have mentioned this before, but I'm writing to make it more clear, and see if there's anything I can do to change this behavior.

I have two tuners. I'm generally configured to pad recording 1 minute before a show starts, and 2 minutes after. This _really_ helps these days, with NBC and ABC screwing around with start times.

However, GB-PVR acts funny when I have two shows right against each other.

For example, if I have an 8-9 show on channel 2, and a 9-10 show on channel 3, then GB-PVR never utilizies both tuners at the overlap time. Instead of recording from 7:59-9:02 on tuner 1 and 8:59-10:02 on tuner two, it records from 7:59-9:02 then changes channel and records 9:02-10:02.

(Actually, I think _this_ particular behavior is new: I think it USED to do 7:59-9:00 then 9:00-10:02, but with .908, it switched to this.)

Now, I can understand GB-PVR throwing away the padding time if it would cause a program to be a conflict, which is actually how it used to act. I still wish it would use two tuners if it has them. But its behavior now is odd: it actually creates a 2 minute conflict that it could resolve by using the other tuner.

Does this make sense?

If I actually have two programs scheduled at the same time (say, two at 9:00-10:00), it does the right thing. The described behavior only shows up when a program comes immediately after another program. This has caused me to lose the starting two minutes of shows.

Is this something I can change in the config file?

Thanks...

[rnslucas]

I've noticed this 'new' feature as well since upgrading, and still happens on version 0910.
If you have two programs one after the other, the programs now stop and restart after the postpadding for the first show.
If you have 8.00-9.00 and then 9.00-10.00 with two minutes post-padding, the second recording now starts at 9.02 whereas it used to start at 9.00. It's OK providing they're on the same channel, but otherwise not so good.
I am using two tuners in the setup, but not because I have two cards. My two tuners are the satelllite S-video input in to my Hauppauge 350, and the internal analogue tuner in the card itself, so I wouldn't expect these to record at the same time.

[kevbo]

Well, gosh...this just bit me again. I ended up missing the first two minutes of a show because it didn't stop recording the padding on another channel.

I should probably post again with a different topic, and see if I can get a response, because that behavior isn't really to be expected. But the problem can actually be seen with only one tuner, so maybe my subject isn't appropriate to catch attention.