[mythtv-users] Live TV Tuner Priority
R. G. Newbury
newbury at mandamus.org
Wed Jul 19 21:54:57 UTC 2006
Joe is right. I fought the same fight and the answer was to delete all
of my cards, and re-enter them, *starting with my HD3000 card* and then
the two tuners of the PVR500. As a result it always chooses Tuner #3 for
live TV first as it is third... So the first shall be last and the last
shall be first....
Geoff
William Prochazka wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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.
>
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