[mythtv-users] PVR-350 & 500 in same box, sound issues

[Steve Pugh]

Intense Red wrote:

>   I have a PVR-350 in my system which worked fine with the PVR-350's hardware 
>decoder.  The only "problem" was that MythTV is so slick TV watching has 
>increased and 1 tuner was not enough. :-)
>  
>
Heh...I know how that goes, I started off with two tuners and then 
realized that sometimes a man needs to watch live TV while two shows are 
recording.  Was quite pleased with how smoothly the addition went, once 
I got over a few "you learn something new every day" moments.

>   On a semi-related note, MythTV seems to grab whichever one of the 3 tuners 
>it wants to record things.  What I'd like to do is to "reserve" the PVR-350 
>for live TV, and to have Myth do recordings only off from the 2 PVR-500's 
>tuners.  Is this possible?
>  
>
Just about, as far as I know.  There is a priority setting that you can 
assign to each tuner card within mythtv-setup.  I can't recall WHERE, 
but when you find it, you can drop the PVR-350 down to a lower priority 
setting.  This won't EXCLUDE it from recording, but it'll make it the 
last card selected, which will give you the same net effect except for 
those times when you want to record three shows simultaneously (also 
known as Sunday Nights At Our House, now that "24" is back.)

Best,
    Steve