[mythtv-users] Benefits of a second card

[Ciaran]

Although strangely, I have 2 dvb cards and it tells me I have a
schedule conflict when I try and assign two recordings at the same
time?
- ciaran


On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:08:37 +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal at eyal.emu.id.au> wrote:
> Paul Wheeler wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:37:53 +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal at eyal.emu.id.au> wrote:
> >
> >>Paul Wheeler wrote:
> >>>How clever is mythtv when it comes to multiple cards and
> >>>viewing/recording does it treat them in the expected way, i.e. if one
> >>>is busy it uses the other one when a call for the feed is given?
> >>
> >>Yes. I do not know yet how to tell it that it should use ABC on dvb0
> >>or dvb1 (digital source) and pick v4l (analog source) if both are busy.
> >>It seems to me that different sources are treated as distinct.
> >>
> > 
> > Do you mean different sources as in dvb vs v4l or as in the different
> > cards i.e. dvb0 vs dvb1 vs v4l? I am really only interested in only
> > having two dvb sources and how it copes with those two sources (no
> > analog) though it may well be similar to having 1 analog and 1 digital
> > source, i dont know much about how myth deals with the cards.
> 
> Yes, if you have two cards for the same source (e.g. two DVB cards) then
> mythtv will schedule them as required, you do not need to assign a
> specific card to a task.
> 
> 
> 
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