[mythtv-users] watch analog and ditial tv on the same card?

[Alan Hagge]

Xiaotian

Hopefully it's not a dumb question, 'cause I want to know too.  I've 
been experimenting since I got my card (about a week ago), and have had 
LIMITED success.  Right now I'm using the dvb drivers (cx88-dvb) for 
ATSC and the cx8800 for NTSC.  But for me, what usually happens is that 
if I start in ATSC mode, I can't switch to NTSC (and vice-versa).

Regarding the mythtvsetup:  I configured two separate tuners: a V4L2 one 
(NTSC) using /dev/video1 (I have a webcam on /dev/video0), and a DVB one 
(ATSC).  Then I set up two separate antennas (one HD, one SD) with 
Zap2It (you have to use 2 different zip codes to set up 2 profiles, 
AFAIK), and tied each to its respective tuner.  And you can select which 
format to use (and thus which tuner) on a per-channel basis (as well as 
having a "global default" which you already found).

I'm using the 2.0 drivers from the pcHDTV website, FC3 and kernel 
2.6.10-1.770_FC3.

BTW, anyone know how to tell MythTV which tuner to use when first 
starting LiveTV?  Mine's defaulting to my NTSC one, and I want the ATSC one.

Alan

Xiaotian Sun wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This may be a dumb question.  Can I watch analog and digital tv using 
> the same pcHDTV-3000 card?  I attempted but without success.
>
> There is a TV format option in mythtvsetup.  I guess if I selected 
> ATSC I won't be able to watch NTSC channels.  Is this correct?