[mythtv-users] Live TV Tuner Priority

[William Prochazka]

Son of a ...  I feel like a fool.  I have tried changing the recording
priorities to all imaginable combinations.  I never thought the the lowed
ID's card would be grabbed first.

Thanks a ton man.


On 7/19/06, Joe Votour <joevph at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Ok, I have spent the past 6mos tinkering with mythtv and love it.  My
> > backend server is a quad pIII Xeon w/ 1.2TB of storage.  My front ends
> are
> > a
> > P4 3.0 SFF pc and a via epia 800.  Ok, now to to the problme.  The
> backend
> > has two cards (three tuners) 1x PVR500 and one pcHDTV5000.  They both
> work
> > great.  The problem is that no matter how I set the priorities and card
> > ids
> > (I have the two PVRs higher), live tv ALWAYS starts using the HD tuner
> > unless the card is in use.  Since the epia is way under powered for HD
> > decoding, this cause a bit of heartache.  In addition, the current
> ATRPMS
> > release is causing a buffer error... timed out waiting for video
> buffers,
> > which I suspect only happens when tuning in HD channels.  In any case, I
> > would really like to only use the HD tuner for recording and the
> > occasional
> > and intentional live viewing of HD content.
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>
> If you select the option, "Avoid conflicts between live TV and scheduled
> shows", then I believe it is the last tuner index that is used.  (At least
> it's that way on my system, but I have only one backend.)
>
> Thus, what I do is I put the second tuner of my PVR-500 card (which I use
> for watching TV) as my last card in mythtv-setup, and live TV uses that
> card.
>
> -- Joe
>
>
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