[mythtv-users] Re: Selecting Card to record with

[Greg]

> MythTv will always use the first card you defined, and only schedule a
> parallel recording to the 2nd tuner card. So you probably have a similar
> setup as i had. To make the PVR card the default one, i think what would
> work is to start setup on the backend and answer Yes to the first
> question 'clear all capture card settings' only.
> 
> I took a slightly more complicate route to make my PVR350 the default
> card by dropping and recreating the capturecard, cardinput, codecparams and
> recordingprofiles[1] tables and re-defining my tuner cards in the proper
> order. Only afterwards i found that option in setup to delete the tuner
> cards settings, but my way also worked without a problem.

Thanks Stefan,

I figured that may be the case... For now I'll just be more careful
about setting up recordings so that I only using the software encoding
card when I have to. I wondering if selecting the card to record with is
an option being considered at some point..

Greg