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Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle
Not if you're doing it right. You have a general routine for tuning and processing the signals regardless of whether it is for viewing or recording. Then you have a module to handle viewing and a module for recording. Each of these should be re-usable code so that you could:- - view multiple channels on each of the outputs (SCART, HDMI, RF, component etc. as applicable)
- view one channel as a picture-in-picture of another channel or the guide (which is just another video source anyway)
- record multiple channels
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Those are all the easy bits, no matter however many tuners and decoders you've got. The difficult thing about multi-tuner PVRs is dealing with recording clashes. Three tuners are much harder than two.
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Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle
Some of the recent software changes for the search functionality, for example, don't seem to follow the principle of "reduce, reuse, recycle". The remote control handling routines seem to have been re-written and are not consistent with the behaviour of the remote elsewhere. It's not like there's oodles of spare memory to waste in some of the older boxes, so it's a bad thing in more than one way.
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That's because Search is loaded off a server. It can't access the functions built into the EPG. The upside is all the memory can be freed once you've finished with Search.