[mythtv-users] problem using 2nd capture card

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/28/2006 07:02 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
> On May 28, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Jos Bouten wrote:
>> I am running mythtv on FC4: 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 on an i686 athlon i386
>> GNU/Linux
>> I've got 2 Hauppauge PVR 150's who are detected by the drivers (see  
>> below).
>> When installing the second card this is how I configured it: I plugged
>> it in, added a capture card, hooked it up via the input connections
>> screen of the setup program and configured its channels via mysql.
>> I have been able to watch tv via card 0 and 1, can switch from 0 to 1
>> and back and also can use PIP nicely.
>> But if I schedule 2 recordings that overlap in time, the first  
>> recording
>> is often (not always) stopped as soon as the starting time for the
>> second is reached. So it seems that the system 'thinks' it has only  
>> one
>> capture card available (or at least most of the time). Another  
>> probably
>> related problem is that sometimes I can and sometimes I can not  
>> watch tv
>> while the system is making a recording but the odd thing is:  
>> sometimes I
>> can. In the latter situation also it seems that there is only one card
>> available.
>> It may be that I missed something while configuring the 2nd capture  
>> card
>> and that this is easily solved, but I've not been able to do so myself
>> nor did I find anything similar in the mailing archives.
>> Any suggestions?
>>     
> Clearly Myth knows about the second card, or you would not be able to  
> use PiP ever, or switch between cards etc.
>
> You said that you configured the channels via mysql, if you mean you  
> went into mysql manually it's hard to know what you have set up, why  
> not configure the channels using mythsetup

Definitely!!!

However, it sounds like you've configured both cards to use the same 
device (i.e. /dev/video0 or something), so you're "crashing" the first 
recording when the second starts.

Mike