[mythtv-users] HowTo: 2 PVR cards?

[James L. Paul]

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On Wednesday 18 February 2004 5:01 am, papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu wrote:
> > > Why would you want to know?  one will be attached to /dev/video0 and
> > > the other to /dev/video1 which one depends on where they are plugged
> > > in. Myth won't care though so why would you?
> >
> > Hmm, good point.
>
> 	Usually true, however situations where you'd want to know which was
> which aren't that unusual.  For example... hooking one card up to a cable
> box or directv via svid or composite... you'd need to know which cable to
> hook up to and which device to configure.  If they're both going to the
> same cable feed (only), you don't usually care.

I used the obvious method for determining which device each card was assigned, 
I disconnected one from my signal source and looked at the output of the 
video devices to see which one lost output. ;)

In my case I am feeding both from the same TV cable, but I developed a quality 
problem on tuner 2. I needed to know which card it was so that I could know 
which cable had the problem. It turned out to be a bad splitter, which I 
replaced with a distribution amp.

> Just a though,
> -Cory
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