[mythtv-users] Recommendation for digital tuner for new mythtv system, UK freeview.

Robin Hill myth at robinhill.me.uk
Wed Nov 18 15:29:01 UTC 2009


On Wed Nov 18, 2009 at 03:20:05PM -0000, David Knight wrote:

> On Mon, November 16, 2009 4:37 pm, Richard Morton wrote:
> > Hauppauge Nova t-500 (pci and dual tuner) or the equivalent hauppauge usb
> > sticks (you'd need two for two tuners) or anything with the same chipset,
> > such as technotrend cards.
> >
> > Each tuner can record all channels on the mux simultaneously (so it
> > strictly
> > meets your reqmts of recording two channels simultaneously) but if you
> > want
> > to record *any* two channels you need dual tuners
> 
> Hmm sorry to hope on the thread I noticed you can specify max recordings
> per capture card in mythtv-setup, if one is using the Nova T-500 for
> instance and there were 4 channels available on each MUX could you in
> theory set max recordings to 4 for each individual tuner? (I've currently
> got mine set as 2 max recordings per tuner).
> 
Yes, you can set it to any value you like.  More virtual tuners will
probably clutter interfaces and slow down scheduling though (and, of
course, you need enough I/O bandwidth to write the data to disk as
well).

Cheers,
    Robin
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