[mythtv-users] 2nd (duplicate) tuner card

Douglas Peale Douglas_Peale at comcast.net
Thu Sep 23 17:17:58 UTC 2010


On 09/23/2010 01:40 AM, Terjesen Jens Peder wrote:
> James Thorpe wrote:
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> On 23 Sep 2010, at 03:48, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> or "m" for menu brings up a list of options, one of which is to switch inputs. Switch to one on the other card.
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> Thanks - that did the trick.  Is there no way of having it do this automatically?
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> Thanks,
> James
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> Your first Hauppauge Nova HD S2 is probably configured with multirec enabled. The default "Max Recordings" under "Recording Options" is 2. This gives you one physical tuner (number 1) and one virtual tuner (number 2).
> When adding the second card with default options you get another physical tuner (number 3) and another virtual tuner (number 4) giving you:
> Physical tuner 1
> Virtual tuner 2 (on physical tuner 1)
> Physical tuner 3
> Virtual tuner 4 (on physical tuner 3)
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> Unless you have enabled "Avoid conflicts between LiveTV and recordings" both recordings and live-TV will allocate tuners starting with number 1, then number 2 and so on. So both live-TV sessions will be allocated to physical tuner 1 (unless a recording is active).
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> You can change the ordering (priority) by the order you configure the capture cards and the number of "Max Recordings" you set when you first configure the physical cards.
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> So deleting all capture cards, then configure first and second physical cards with "Max Recordings" set to 1 gives:
> Physical tuner 1
> Physical tuner 2
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> Going back and increasing the "Max Recordings" to 2 on first physical card then on second physical card gives:
> Physical tuner 1
> Physical tuner 2
> Virtual tuner 3 (on physical tuner 1)
> Virtual tuner 4 (on physical tuner 2)
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> With this setup the two live-TV sessions will be allocated on separate physical tuners.
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> There have been a few threads on this on the mailing list. I found this one that explains this in more detail:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/369358#369358
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When you set it up this way, will multiple simultaneous recordings use all physical tuners before attempting to pack multiple
recordings into a single physical tuner via multi-rec?


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