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Originally Posted by GlenR
Just had an intersting conflict and don't know why it happened. 
The wife likes to record Trinny and Susannah (yes, I know, but what can you do?) and the one this Thursday didn't schedule itself as MC believes that the episode was already recorded. A check showed that this is because IceTV gave this week's episode and last week's episode the same title, so MC was doing the logical thing and saying "not recording thsi because you already have it". Fair enough - IceTV mistake I'll just record this episode as a one-off.
When I tried to manually record it I got recording conflict as "you can only record two shows at a time" - considering I have three tuners this was an odd thing. But, as I hadn't put this hack in place yet (yes, I've been lazy) I figured I was just bumping into this problem. So I put the reg changes in and guess what? Same problem when I tried to record this episode - only two shows at once.
I then picked another show starting at the same time and this was accepted.
So, I set the show via manual record - set start time, finish time, channel, etc - for the exact same time and channel that recording from the guide would have been, and it was accepted without conflict.
So, if I picked the show from the guide it conflicted because I was recording more than two things, but if I added a manual recording for the exact same time and channel it was OK. Weird! |
Finally catching up with you guys and am about to go for 4 tuners - never seemed to need them before, but all of a sudden there was shows on back to back on a Thursday and Wednesday and you know how often programs overrun.
Anyhow, thought I'd mention to Glen and those interested, that the above issue occured with my standard, vanilla, two tuner install and isn't a result of changing priorities and the like. Guess VMC doesn't like having a show re-instated if it decides it shouldn't be recorded and comes up with a conflict to say "you can't record two shows"
The funny thing then is that in the usual conflict window it was showing 2 shows, one with a red dot indicating a recording and one without a red dot, you could actually select the second show to record with a red dot and it didn't change the other recording to show as not recording i.e. the conflict screen now showed two recordings both selected as recording (geez, does any of what I've just types make sense)
So next time, don't be put off by the conflict just select the show to record and all should proceed as normal.
Cheers,
Tak