[mythtv-users] Dual tuner info

Jarod C. Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Sat Apr 24 13:52:39 EDT 2004


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On Saturday 24 April 2004 05:53, Khanh Tran wrote:
> *sigh*
>
> I suppose I'll just have to wait for the patch.  Do you know if it's
> included in .15?

I'm not 100% certain, but I think so. I believe JDS (or Isaac) would know for 
certain...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jarod C. Wilson [mailto:jcw at wilsonet.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 1:20 AM
> To: khanh at khanh.net; Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Dual tuner info
>
> On Friday 23 April 2004 16:55, Khanh Tran wrote:
> > That makes perfect sense, but what I'm confused about is what I
> > experienced before.  When I had the digital cable source assigned to
> > only one tuner, I had trouble changing to a digital channel:
> >
> > 1. I was watching basic cable on Tuner 1 (that had only basic cable
> > attached)
> > 2. I attempted to change to a digital channel.
> > 3. Tuner 1, not having the digital cable as a source, 4. MythTV
> > wouldn't switch to Tuner 2 to complete the channel change
> >
> > Is this unrealistic at this point?  I recall your recent post about
> > MythTV not being able to automatically switch tuners, but it's higher
> > on my WAF than risking digital cable on both tuners...
>
> Hm... This is a bit messy... You'd want the first card to have both sources
> to easily (or easier) change to digital channels for live TV (by toggling
> inputs), but then this card would be the first one used for recordings, so
> if something was recording, you wouldn't be able to watch the digital
> channels... I think you may have to wait for work to be completed on the
> patch that allows you to change between inputs and cards in one fell swoop
> to get everything working optimally... :-(

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