[mythtv-users] recording on two PVR250 or 350 inputs at once?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

Khanh Tran wrote:
> So what if I just wanted to watch vido from one input while recording
> off the tuner or the s-video input.  Is this possible?   Or is it
> technically still recording anyway?
> 
> -Khanh

You can't do this.  Anything you get from the card has to come through 
the MPEG encoder, which can only handle one stream at a time.  Even with 
the analog V4L cards, which don't have encoders, only one stream at a 
time is sent to the PCI bus.

Think of it as a A/B switch... turning on one input effectively turns 
off the other.  You can only use one at a time.

-JAC

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian May [mailto:bam at snoopy.apana.org.au] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 9:20 PM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] recording on two PVR250 or 350 inputs at
> once?
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>>>>>>"Khanh" == Khanh Tran <khanh at slc.edu> writes:
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>     Khanh> Is it possible to record on both the S-Video/Audio input
>     Khanh> and the coax TV Tuner input simultaneously on a PVR250 or
>     Khanh> PVR350 under MythTV?
> 
> No. AFAIK There is only one tuner and one MPEG encoder on the card.