[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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