[mythtv-users] Re:modules.conf for ivtv + bttv

[William Powers]

Ok, well, I wrote a patch for the ivtv drivers that allows one to set the 
tuner type for the ivtv card from within the ivtv driver instead of 
requring it be set externally.

http://www.poptix.net/ivtv/current/msg00218.html

This allows ivtv to "play well" with bttv such that an ivtv and a bttv card 
with dissimilar tuner types can both be used within the same system.  That 
was all that it took to get the two tuners to work together in MythTV for 
Live TV w/ PIP.  However, now I'm hung up on Live TV while recording and/or 
simultaneous recording.

Question:  Is there any way to directly associate a TV recording profile 
with a capture card?  The situation now is that even though both cards will 
play together for PIP, I can't get the second card (the bttv card) to 
display Live TV while the ivtv card is recording unless I go into setup, in 
the recording profile section, and change the encoding method for the 'Live 
TV' profile from 'Hardware MPEG' to 'MPEG-4" or 'MJPEG' (or whatever their 
called).

I presume I would have similar difficulties if/when I attempted to use both 
cards for recording:  In cases where I can determine ahead of time which 
card the scheduler will use for each recording, I can probably use the 
advance recording dialog to set the proper profile for the card that will 
actually be used.  But my family will never figure out all of that.

 From a practical standpoint, I'm inclined now to save my pennies for a 
second Hauppage card.  However, the ability to deal appropriately with 
multiple tuner cards of different type would appear to be a desirable 
feature.  Assuming that it is not somehow possible now, I would suggest 
providing the ability to select a 'default' profile for each Capture Card 
and/or Video Source in the backend setup.  That 'default' profile could 
then be overridden from the advanced recording dialog.

Bill