[mythtv-users] Dual NTSC/ATSC Setup
Kevin Kuphal
kuphal at dls.net
Tue Jun 1 12:02:11 EDT 2004
David A. Greene wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a pcHDTV card and a WinTV Theater in the same backend/frontend
> box. Eventually I am hoping to setup an Xbox or similarly cheap
> additional frontend. I was hoping the new version of Myth would
> support a dual ATSC/NTSC setup but apparently it does not. Is there
> any way to get such a setup working? I can get HDTV over the air and
> NTSC through cable. Digital Cable is not an option due to price and
> also what appears to be the lack of DVB capture card support in Linux.
>
> Running two indepent backends is not an option unless they can somehow
> share information about scheduling, etc.
>
> Anyone have such a setup working or ideas on how to make it a reality?
>
Just as a side-note to your question, you can run two separate backends
and they can communicate to each other with one being a slave, sharing
guide information, scheduling, and the like. It is in the official
documentation as configuring a non-master backend:
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-9.html#ss9.3
Kevin
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