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<blockquote data-quote="Elvar" data-source="post: 64604" data-attributes="member: 13782">Hello, there are two things/ideas I would like to see in MP in future.The first thing is ability to watch/record multiple channels on the same mux with one dvb tuner card. This means that if there are i.e. four channels on a mux I could for example record two of them and watch the third one. And this all would be possible with only one tuner card. Of course if I had two tuners I could do this with two muxes etc. Cpu power shouldn't be too much an issue, because recording isn't that cpu intensive task. Second thing is related to the scheduled recordings. At the moment there is no proper solution to wake up MP if there's scheduled recording about to start and pc is shut down. That's why I propose that the wake up thing could be done similar way that they do in VDR. They do it with a little module called nvram-wakeup. More info can be found at <a href="http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Nvram_wakeup" target="_blank">http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Nvram_wakeup</a>. Basically it works by writing the next wake up time (=next scheduled recording) to the computer bios at the VDR shutdown. The computer then starts at the written time to start recording. The nvram-wakeup works almost on any modern atx motherboard. So I think this would be great way for MP to deal with the scheduled recordings too.Thanks everybody, hopefully we'll see those features above in MP some day. MP is a great piece of software and getting better all the time!-Elvar-</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elvar, post: 64604, member: 13782"] Hello, there are two things/ideas I would like to see in MP in future. The first thing is ability to watch/record multiple channels on the same mux with one dvb tuner card. This means that if there are i.e. four channels on a mux I could for example record two of them and watch the third one. And this all would be possible with only one tuner card. Of course if I had two tuners I could do this with two muxes etc. Cpu power shouldn't be too much an issue, because recording isn't that cpu intensive task. Second thing is related to the scheduled recordings. At the moment there is no proper solution to wake up MP if there's scheduled recording about to start and pc is shut down. That's why I propose that the wake up thing could be done similar way that they do in VDR. They do it with a little module called nvram-wakeup. More info can be found at [url]http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Nvram_wakeup[/url]. Basically it works by writing the next wake up time (=next scheduled recording) to the computer bios at the VDR shutdown. The computer then starts at the written time to start recording. The nvram-wakeup works almost on any modern atx motherboard. So I think this would be great way for MP to deal with the scheduled recordings too. Thanks everybody, hopefully we'll see those features above in MP some day. MP is a great piece of software and getting better all the time! -Elvar- [/QUOTE]

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