[mythtv-users] SVN 8625 Tuner Status strangeness

[Steve Adeff]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 15:23, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/17/06 22:42, Steve Adeff wrote:
> >On Tuesday 17 January 2006 22:28, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> >>>Tuner Status says Tuner 3 is recording, but the file being written is
> >>>2068_blah, so wouldn't that mean its Tuner 2?
> >>
> >>No, the 2068 is the chanid.  This is probably the second source you
> >>setup (whether you have 2 or had 1 and deleted it and added another).
> >
> >So source and tuner are not the same... strange, but I guess it doesn't
> > really matter. I'll just have to remember 2 and 3 are backwards.
>
> Source as in "video sources" as in channel lineups.  Has nothing to do
> with capture cards/tuners/inputs.  I have one source and 2 capture cards
> and set up a box with one source and 4 capture cards.  Every one of my
> recordings (and every recording on the 4 card box) starts with "1" (i.e.
> 1009_xxx, 1035_xxx) regardless of which tuner records them.
>
> Mike

ah. so the first digit is the source, not the tuner! vewy intwesting....

-- 
Steve