[mythtv-users] Dual tuner info

[Brian Rumple]

That is exactly what I am doing now and everything is working good.


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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of James Orr
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 4:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Dual tuner info


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.
> 
> 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?

-- 
James Orr <james at orrwhat.net>