[mythtv-users] Dual Tuner Question

[Brad Sagowitz]

Thanks Bruce!!!  I'll give that a go!  This will make troubleshooting my 
hardware much easier.

Bruce Markey wrote:

> Brad Sagowitz wrote:
>
>> I 've got a question... can you choose which tuner is default in a 
>> dual tuner situation?  I'm have some bad jagged lines sporadically 
>> during recording and I'm pretty sure that its my Hauppauge 401 card 
>> which is in a pci slot closer to the agp slot then my leadtek card.  
>> I'd like to record with the leadtek and see if it has any problems.
>
>
> Yes. I've swapped the order of cards many times. It's easy =).
>
> First prudent paranoia:
>
> mysqldump -u mythtv --password=mythtv mythconverg > mythtv_backup.sql
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-19.html#ss19.6
>
>
> $ cd MC/setup
> $ ./setup
> Would you like to clear all capture card
> settings before starting configuration? [no] yes
> Would you like to clear all program/channel
> settings before starting configuration? [no] no
>
> "yes" to the first question will just empty the tables for
> capture card info and leave all your channel/program/recording
> data in tact.
> Go to step 2 and choose "(New capture card)". Fill in your
> info for /dev/video1 first(!). Choose  New capture card again
> and fill in the info for /dev/video second. You should skip
> step 3 because your Video sources haven't changed. Go to step
> 4 to associate your video sources to input connections.
>
> Restart mythbackend and it will always choose /dev/video1
> before /dev/video.
>
>
> If you have other slave backends, what I like to do is setup
> one of the cards on the master, setup the slave backends in
> order of preference, then go back to the master and add the
> second tuner. This way, it will only use the second tuner as
> a last resort.
> --  bjm
>
>
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