A programme was recording and I decided to watch iPlayer, knowing that a second, overlapping recording was due to start soon. When the second programme's start time arrived I was warned of a conflict and had to stop watching iPlayer.
I was surprised as I assumed that iPlayer wouldn't use a tuner, especially while actually playing a programme. Is this expected behaviour?
When watching iPlayer a tuner is still being used for the current live channel and it is a conflict with this that the warning was about. Did you try restarting iPlayer after the second recording had started? I have never seen this issue myself but I would agree that it is another example of poorly thought out Humax usability.
Yes, I was able to restart iPlayer and watch the rest of the programme I'd been watching, though I think I did this after the first programme had finished recording. In other words - and I haven't definitely proved this - it seems that it's not possible to record two programmes and watch iPlayer.
I think it would depend on which two channels you were recording, just like any other channel.
I'd assumed that all iPlayer traffic would use ethernet: I hadn't appreciated that iPlayer is itself a satellite channel. In this context the "current live channel" is iPlayer and this means that use of iPlayer is subject to the same limitations as any other two channels.
I can understand - or at least make educated guesses as to - why this is but it is a little disappointing and I was very confused when the conflict warning appeared while I was watching a programme on iPlayer 
I understand that it is a mixture of the two, at least initially.
The iPlayer MHEG app needs to be downloaded from the satellite multiplex each time because the broadcaster needs to manage the process around their app and to keep it up-to-date.
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