[mythtv-users] OTA HDTV and QAM on same card

[Matt Mossholder]

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 12:29 -0500, Steven Adeff wrote:

> > Actually, Daniel has been committing changes to the SVN HEAD revision of
> > MythTV which includes basic support for using both sides of these
> > cards.  It would probably be best to poke over to the -dev list and ask
> > about the status of these changes.  I'm sure he'd be interested in testers.
> >
> > Kevin
> 
> thats for being able to use the analog tuner and the digital tuner
> together. What the OP wants to do is be able to tune OTA and QAM
> digital signals at the same time.
> 
> As I thought about this some more, if you could multiplex the two
> signals onto the same line it could be possible to tune both OTA and
> QAM frequencies with the proper channel setup. One optoin to try is to
> get a multiplexor from Home Depot or Radio Shack (or similar) that are
> designed to combine a satelite signal with a Antenna signal. This may
> work, and the multplexor (which looks like a splitter) should only be
> a few dollars. You will have to do a custom scan outside of myth to
> find the channels and will most likely have to do a QAM scan and an
> ATSC scan.
> 
> --
> Steve

You might be able to have it use QAM or OTA based on what channel you
are viewing, but you couldn't tune both at the same time. You might also
have firmware issues, since (at least on my pcHDTV3000 card), you have
to use different firmware images for QAM and OTA.

		--Matt