Udo Richter wrote:
The primary device should be available for live viewing as long as possible. Even if I do a recording, the primary device should be available for channel switching, and not requiring transfer mode. Recording is the job of the budget card.
Hmm, it's not that easy because it ignores the original intention of this thread. It makes no sense that a CAM budget card is always used to record a free channel, which makes it impossible to view and/or record encrypted channels at the same time. A CAM is a valuable resource, wasting it is obviously a bad idea.
If it's really of general interest to reserve a FF card as long as possible (it looks this feature was requested to workaround very specific hardware problems), I'd vote for a new VDR preference setting to control the device priority, instead of any hardcoded recipe.
Regards,
Joern