[mythtv-users] Can myth switch between Video cards?

[PAUL WILLIAMSON]

>>>> derek at disposable.dnsalias.org 11/16/2004 3:57:14 PM >>>
>On Tuesday 16 November 2004 18:53, Phil Bridges wrote:
>> > First post to this list- Myth is just fabulous. I now have two
Myth
>> > boxes, a
>> > front/backend server, and a front end client on a discless Via
Mini-ITX
>> > (running MiniMyth). It works great.
>> >
>> > My server has two video cards, Both DVB-T, but one of them (An
AverMedia)
>> > requires a much better signal than the other (A Hauppagauge
Nova-T) and
>> > channels on some multiplexes are unwatchable. I have got around
the issue
>> > by
>> > defining two different video sources so the Avermedia card is
restricted
>> > to
>> > only those channels it can play successfully.
>> >
>> > But now I find when I watch TV, if my client selects the
restricted DVB
>> > card
>> > it will not switch to the other card when I select a channel not
>> > supported on
>> > the current card.
>> >
>> > Am I missing something? Does Myth have the capability to switch
between
>> > cards?
>> > What happens if you have for example a satellite card and a
terrestrial
>> > card
>> > with completely different channel lists?
>> >
>> > BTW: I am running CVS from about a week ago.
>> >
>> > TIA
>> >
>> > derek
>> >
>> >From the key.txt file:
>>
>> - Y Switch Capture Cards
>>
>> Also, I have this same problem with my PVR-250 and my M179.  I
changed the
>> order of the cards using mythsetup so that it normally shows live TV
on
>> the better card.
>
>Ah Yes- That works. Thanks
>It does not seem to be listed in the Myth 'Howto' so I do not have to
feel too 
>stupid for not finding it myself.
>
>derek

D'oh!  And I was just in there fiddling around with things.  The "c"
just changes 
the inputs on the tuner card you are currently using.  I see now that Y
is switch 
capture cards.

Can someone add the "Y" command here?

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-11.html#ss11.1

Paul