and "do it the right way" by adding the global buffer there and removing the 2 minutes from each of the recording schedules. Mythtv is now scheduling shows on the same multiplex on the same physical tuner, and I can record more than 2 shows now. Thanks! &gt;I belive I may have fixed it. I like to start recording 2 minutes early on &gt;all my shows because some networks start the show earlier than they say they &gt;will. I had hacked it by putting the hard 2 minutes at the beginning of all &gt;my recording schedules (about 5 of them). While I was messing in &gt;mythtv-setup, I decided to enable the option and "do it the right way" by &gt;adding the global buffer there and removing the 2 minutes from each of the &gt;recording schedules. I hard pad all my recordings, and I still get multiple recordings from 1 mux on one tuner. I assume you set the soft-pad option so when the system is doing back-back recordings it's not padding at all. You still have something wrong. You can hard pad and still use multirec. On 10/31/2012 06:33 PM, Brian Phillips wrote: &gt; Brian Phillips wrote: &gt;&gt; Agreed. Because everything you've said sounds similar to what I have &gt;&gt; done. &gt;&gt; I rarely watch LiveTV, but the one time I did while recording, I &gt;&gt; noticed that LiveTV decided to jump on the same tuner as a program &gt;&gt; that was recording, and I was only allowed to view