[mythtv-users] DVB-T and DVB-S on same box
Michael Cowell
michael at mousewasher.dk
Mon Jan 9 22:20:36 UTC 2006
James Pattinson wrote:
> I've now added a Freecom DVB-S adaptor, which is also working well.
> However I thought I would be able to "integrate" the two systems as
> there is a lot of channel overlap, but not all channels on -T are
> available on -S and vice versa.
>
> How can I tell MythTV that, for example, BBC ONE is available on both
> cards, so it will let me record two things at once? It's channel 1 on
> the -T card and channel 6301 on the -S card.
For each shared channel: you have two separate channels set up
(different names, ids, etc) but you set the channel number to the same
thing (or the chanid or whatever it's called, I can't get to my mythbox
at the moment), as well as the XML source. You can then give the two
separate channels different priorities, if you want, but they will
appear as one channel in the program guide, scheduler, etc. I use this
setup for the common analog and digital channels here in Australia (the
are some digital only, as well as some analog only channels too).
> Is this even supported? I was suprised to find that to even watch the
> new channels on my frontend, I had to switch tuners. I would have
> thought it could be more abstract than that. Why should the frontend
> care what tuner it users?
>
Yeh, you have to do that for live tv. It's a bit strange. Maybe it'll be
fixed in 0.19 (I know live tv is going to have lots of changes).
Michael
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