[mythtv-users] HDTV & NTSC same backend, 1 source

[Brian Foddy]

On Thursday 05 August 2004 10:26 pm, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Thursday 05 August 2004 11:09 pm, Brian Foddy wrote:
> > Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?
> > I have a single backend with 4 cards,
> > cardid's 1-3 are PVR250s,
> > cardid 4 is a pcHDTV.
> > I've defined 1 broadcast source grabbing from datadirect.
> > The source includes both ntsc and atsc channels.
> > I've gone through the database and renumbered the hd channels
> > to 100+ the base number, and changed the corresponding
> > frequency to the proper hd value, and the tvformat of these
> > records is all ATSC; the normal channels are default, being
> > NTSC.
> >
> > Whenever I select a program to record from the hd channels,
> > it doesn't use cardid 4, but one of the lower ones.
> >
> > The only way I've historically been able to get the HD card
> > to be used, is if I define a second source and duplicate
> > all the channels all over.  But this is very cluttering on the
> > program guide.  I've been all over the docs and forum lists,
> > but can't find what I'm missing...
>
> It's just doing what you told it to do.  You've told it that the hdtv
> channels are available on all inputs.  If different channels are available
> on different inputs, each needs their own lineup.  If the callsigns are the
> same on the various lineups, they automatically get grouped together in the
> program guide, and the scheduler can auto-select which card to use based on
> your other preferences.
>

I agree, so I can't see how this can work without some indication how a 
channel can be mapped to an input card, and that is what I'm missing.  I 
would have thought the "format" would be the mapping, but its not.  I also
thought from the forums maybe if the channum and freq are different,
that is some internal flag.

When you say "lineup", do you mean "source" as defined by the
videosource table?  If so, then you are saying I need to use a second
source, which I have gotten to work, but then I get 4 copies of every
channel.  Thereby implying I need to create a second datadirect
account with different channel lineups.  I tried to manually delete a
channel from the database (like in the good old days of xmltv), but
it will be recreated the next mythfilldatabase run.  This gets to the
core of my frustration...

Brian