<br><tt><font size=2>>> We still need to fix it so users never, ever,
see IDs. <br>
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> No! Please don't do this! Not all my tuners are equivalent, or on
the same source, but some channels are available on several tuners. <br>
> When a recording goes bad it is absolutely necessary that I be able
to associate the recording to the appropriate tuner/input to be able to
debug the problem.</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>I also vote for being able to easily see the info
about which tuner was used for a recording, and which physical adapter/USB
thingy the tuner is associated with. I've had to struggle getting
a Pinnacle USB stick working, when only one tuner seems to work (more tests
running 2 this weekend). Info about which tuner+adapter was used would
have made my life a lot easier.</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>And the jiggery-pokery in/out of mythtv-setup to get
tuner devices in the right order says to me that the tuner scheduling and
interaction between LiveTV and Recordings has not been updated to fully
take account of virtual tuners. Most non-sysadmin types just want
to put tuners in, set a number of virtual tuners, and be done with it.
The LiveTV and Recordings tuner allocation need to allocate in order
as per the "manual setup" process themselves, without the need
for forcing device ordering. The manual tuner add process is an OK
workaround but is definitely confusing for most people (who would justifiably
ask why the computer can't just do it itself).</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>The virtual tuner stuff is new, so of course it is
going to take a while for Mythtv internal logic to catch up with it. </font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>By the way, what is there is already fantastic, and
unmatched in any commercial PVR- AFAIK there is no commercial PVR that
can record 8 programs using 2 tuners!</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>So thanks Mythtv devs for what you've done already,
and can you please put the allocation order changes into a roadmap?</font></tt>