Sharing tuners with Media Center

[pcostanza]

I tried something last night to see what would happen if I recorded 1 analog show in Media Center and 1 in NPVR with my HVr2250. The Media Center show recorded fine but I only got the folder created for the NVPR scheduled show.
I know this is not a Media Center forum but I am curious how NPVR handles tuners in this case. Was it a matter of MC possibly starting early before NPVR or that NPVR went to the first analog tuner, found it busy and stopped.
I've not tried this with digital as I have too many tuners to adjust and with multi-record, I'd never really know what happened. I don't normally do this but I must have been bored enough to try it.
Again, just a curiousity as to what should happen when sharing tuners system wide.

[sub]

Was it a matter of MC possibly starting early before NPVR or that NPVR went to the first analog tuner, found it busy and stopped.

Yep, pretty much. The first app to start the device graph will have access to it, and the other app will get a failure when it tries to start it.

[pcostanza]

Thanks for the info. I won't be doing this again anyway.......lesson learned.