[mythtv-users] Dual tuner info
James Orr
james at orrwhat.net
Thu Apr 22 16:42:27 EDT 2004
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 15:50, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
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> On Thursday 22 April 2004 11:20, Khanh Tran wrote:
> > Can someone point me in the direction of good instructions on dual tuner
> > setups? It seems like an obscure thing to find. I have them working OK
> > so far, but the EPG shows two copies of the channel.
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> That means you set up two separate channel sources for each tuner. If they are
> for the same source, just assign that sources to both tuners.
>
> > Also, depending on
> > which one you choose, the backend will come back with an error saying
> > that the tuner is in use if you choose two programs in the same timeslot
> > to record. While this isn't a problem for me, the WAF will be low on
> > remembering "which" of the two EPG items to choose...
>
> Go back into setup, clear out your epg, delete the second video source, assign
> the first one to both tuner inputs.
So there's no way you can tell myth that a channel in one source is the
same as a channel in another? I'm not in this situation yet, but I
forsee I will be in the future.
My ultimate goal is to have three tuners, two for my DCT boxes and a
third with regular cable.
So, for the first two, no problem, just set the same source as they are
identical.
The third presents a problem as just adding another basic cable source
would result in duplicate channels ... unless ... and i'm basically
working this out as I type here so bear with me ...
Listing #1: Digital Cable with all basic channels removed
Listing #2: Basic Channels
Tuner #1:
Composite Input -> Listing #1
Television Input -> Listing #2
Tuner #2:
Composite Input -> Listing #1
Television Input -> Listing #2
Tuner #3:
Television Input -> Listing #2
This would probably make a bit of a cable nightmare at the back and may
require a few cable splitters to setup.
MythTV is smart enough to know that it can't record the television input
of tuner 1 if it's using the composite already, right? Would this work?
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James Orr <james at orrwhat.net>
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