Please review the attached image to see what I mean about equal mode.
Yes, the first figure is how I had them set up before (albeit Tuner B was the configured one, and Tuner A was set to be equal to B). Anyway, I have now changed the setup, and it's exactly as you show for "Individually set".
Anyway, I tried two 5 minute recordings of premium channels using the equal mode and they both played back OK. The recordings were manually started. I do not believe the equal mode is the cause of the issue you are experiencing.
Ah, OK. In my failed scenarios, I'd set the recordings to be controlled by EPG timers (and I don't think any would have overlapped, etc, requiring more than 1 tuner), and they started recording whilst I was watching another channel.
Using the equal mode I started a recording of a channel. Whilst this was going I was able to select and view all other channels. None were greyed out indicating being unavailable. The only thing that I noticed was that the FTA channels were also showing an ECM value instead of "FTA".
Now *that* is interesting! I've noticed the opposite? Basically, say I'm recording something from an encrypted channel whilst watching another encrypted channel - when I clicked on the OK button to show the CCCam info in the OSD, it would say the channel was FTA (and hence no CCCam info). In fact, I was going to raise a separate bug about this, and that's why I was asking about how to do screen grabs!
Whilst recording two channels the memory went to 2956 from 38780.
I'm still trying to work out what's going on with the memory usage. Basically, because I noticed low free memory (typically about 2500 - 3500) being shown when I was trying out the last image, this time I decided to use a USB stick for EPG/Picons and the HDD for recordings on the 29/03/2012 image. Since then, I've been able to see Free Memory as high as almost 40000, but I too have noticed it sometimes dipping down to 2500 occasionally. It definitely does this when viewing a recording, which made me think that this is because it's buffering some of the content either side of the current video position, to make it easier to pause, FF, Rew, etc. However, I've seen such low Free Memory occurring at other times, too, e.g. when only viewing 1 FTA channel and with no recordings going on. It's made me wonder whether there's a memory leak somewhere. However, for the free memory to later climb back up, it may not be a memory leak at all but may point to something else running in the background.
A. Could you elaborate on the term "unusable". Do you mean that you get momentary skips, i.e. results of glitching.
I mean COMPLETELY unusable, unless you just want to listen to the channels as a radio!
Basically, when switching channels you get the sound, and everything showing up in the OSD, but the picture is just a still picture of whatever was showing when the freeze occurred. As I said before, an "Enigma restart" from the menu doesn't do it, and nor does a regular "restart" from the menu (in fact the latter has never worked for me whenever I've needed, and I've had to resort to restarting from the power switch on the unit.
B. Is your HDD an old one or new one.
It's probably about 2-3 years old, a 3.5" Seagate 500GB. It was in one of my Media Centers before. These Seagates are supposed to have a 5year warranty, but I've noticed that all my Seagates have slowly-slowly been failing. I wouldn't be surprised if it's slowly dieing - is there any SMART reporting on this box? Might try to see if I can get that going, at least via command line?
C. When did you download your image?[/QUOTE]
Judging from my timestamp on the "update" folder of my USB drive, I'd say just after midday on 03/04/2012.
