[mythtv-users] Advice on adding second capture card

[Chris Hembrow]

I set my nova-t as the first input, that way I don't tie up my sky box
by recording a freeview channel, unless i'm recording 2 channels.
There is nothing more annoying than getting halfway through a
recording, only to find that the missus has changed sky channel, or
left it on the sky guide for 20 minutes! (and that is despite having
an LCD on the box which shows if/what it's recording)

The only problem I had was with scanning the channels, cuz I have a
cr4p aerial. I had to manually enter the frequencies in mythtvsetup
and do a search then. But this shouldn't be a problem with a decent
aerial.


On 18/01/06, Paul Barker <myth at sixtimesnine.net> wrote:
> David wrote:
>
> >
> >There was some good advice on Nova-Ts in the archives - fairly easy to
> >search for. Also easy to find on google.
> >
> >Do you have good DVB reception?
> >This is a good link for UK digital TV - what cable to use from the
> >aerial etc...
> >http://www.megalithia.com/elect/index.html
> >
> >I currently have usually bad DVB reception (upgrading the aerial wire
> >next week) - and Mythbackend sometimes has problems 'cos it can't sync.
> >It's also impossible to say "don't record on this input" so as soon as
> >you get xmltv going it will schedule for it and you'll have to delete
> >shows by hand.
> >
> >David
> >
> >
> >
> Thanks David. I'll have a search about in the archives. I've been
> reading plenty of stuff on the web and I know a fair bit more about DVB
> today than I did yesterday! I had a look at the megalithia site and I
> have good line of site to Billsdale (no obstructions) and I'm 21 miles
> away. Since I already have a good loft space aerial I'm going to borrow
> a friends set top box over the weekend and see what kind of reception I
> get from it. If it's not great I'll have to have an outdoor aerial fitted.
>
> With regard to Myth choosing the second tuner, I had assumed that it
> would use the first input (my 250) unless there was a conflict and then
> try to resolve it using the new input (Nova-T) is this the case ?
>
> Cheers
> Paul
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