[mythtv-users] Dual tuner info

Jarod C. Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Thu Apr 22 19:32:30 EDT 2004


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On Thursday 22 April 2004 13:42, James Orr wrote:
>
> So there's no way you can tell myth that a channel in one source is the
> same as a channel in another?

Not that I know of.

> I'm not in this situation yet, but I 
> forsee I will be in the future.
>
> My ultimate goal is to have three tuners, two for my DCT boxes and a
> third with regular cable.
>
> So, for the first two, no problem, just set the same source as they are
> identical.
>
> The third presents a problem as just adding another basic cable source
> would result in duplicate channels ... unless ...  and i'm basically
> working this out as I type here so bear with me ...
>
> Listing #1: Digital Cable with all basic channels removed
> Listing #2: Basic Channels
>
> Tuner #1:
> 	Composite Input -> Listing #1
> 	Television Input -> Listing #2
>
> Tuner #2:
> 	Composite Input -> Listing #1
> 	Television Input -> Listing #2
>
> Tuner #3:
> 	Television Input -> Listing #2
>
> This would probably make a bit of a cable nightmare at the back and may
> require a few cable splitters to setup.

Yes, but its absolutely correct.

> MythTV is smart enough to know that it can't record the television input
> of tuner 1 if it's using the composite already, right?  Would this work?

This would work, and Myth does know that it can't use a card if another input 
is already in use.

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