[mythtv-users] multirec <- Setup Tuners / Capture Cards

[Nick Morrott]

On 20/04/2008, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Reading from:
>
>  http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Record_multiple_channels_from_one_multiplex#Setup_Tuners_.2F_Capture_Cards
>
>  If you want to use the multirec feature, you need to delete your
>  multirec-compatible capture cards in mythtv-setup, recreate them as
>  before, and then (key step) choose the desired number of 'virtual'
>  tuners for each card using the Record options (Max Tuners default=2).
>
>  Setting the number of virtual tuner >1 for a capture card enables
>  multirec and governs how many parallel recordings can be made from a
>  capture card, assuming the channels to be recorded from are broadcast on
>  the same multiplex.
>
>  You may need to rescan your DVB channels to allow this function to work
>
>  Question:
>
>  Is the absolute max 5 for this setting?
>  I can't increase the number of tuners beyond that.

You can overcome this setting by editing the source code directly.

-- 
Nick Morrott

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