[mythtv-users] 2 mux on same time

Emmanuel eallaud at gmail.com
Fri Feb 4 22:11:34 UTC 2011


On 03/02/2011 21:28, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>  On 02/03/2011 08:16 PM, Emmanuel wrote:
>> On 03/02/2011 21:01, Josu Lazkano wrote:
>>> Hello list, I having some problem on LiveTV. I have a MythTV 0.24 on a
>>> Debian Squeeze system with 2 DVB-T tunners.
>>>
>>> I create one video source (EIT only) and add to both tunners on the
>>> mythbackend connection section.
>>>
>>> The problem is that when I am recording a program and I want to watch
>>> (LiveTV) an other channel on different mux, I can not watch it. Here
>>> is backend output:
>>>
>>> 2011-02-04 01:51:49.098 ChannelBase(36): IsTunable(DVBInput,5) Channel
>>> is valid, but tuner is busy on different multiplex (715 != 718)
>>> 2011-02-04 01:51:49.128 ChannelBase(36) Warning: Setting start channel
>>> '5' failed,
>>>             selected to '6' on input 'DVBInput' instead.
>>> 2011-02-04 01:51:49.139 TVRec(36): HW Tuner: 36->36
>>> 2011-02-04 01:51:49.166 Finished recording EL INTERMEDIO: channel 4344
>>>
>>> When I try to jump to an other channels, it returns to the channel
>>> that I am recording. I want to add more DVB-T devices to record
>>> multiple channels on different mux at same time, first I will try to
>>> solve with 2 devices.
>>>
>>> I will appreciate any help, thanks and best regards.
>>>
>> Hmm I guess you need to setup 2 video sources. Because with your 
>> setup, IIUC, you are telling the backend that both tuners "share the 
>> same source" basically meaning that they can only tune to the same 
>> mux. So all you can do with your setup is watch 2 (or more actually) 
>> channels on the same mux.
>> You can also set virtual tuners: each "real tuners" can record 
>> several channels on the same mux. So with 2 tuners you can end up 
>> recording alot of shows ;-) But you need as many video sources as 
>> tuners.
>> Please someone correct me if I'm wrong ;-)
>
> No, if the list of channels received by the 2 DVB cards is identical, 
> you use a single MythTV Video Source.
>
> I think Josu just needs to either use the MENU to choose the next 
> card, or bind a key to NEXTCARD, or similar.
OK Sorry, my bad, I stand corrected!
A+
Manu


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