[mythtv-users] using both firewire and svideo

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Wed Jun 13 14:08:21 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 06:32 -0700, Adrian wrote:
> 
>         
>         Use two different channel lineups in zap2it, one that just has
>         channels < 100 in it and assign it to the firewire input, and
>         one just with channels > 100 in it and assign that to the
>         svideo input.  You may need to set up a second zap2it account
>         for this,
> 
> That doesn't quite work, Myth could still attempt to record from
> different channels on both inputs simultaneously.  It seems that there
> needs to be a way to tell myth that the two inputs are mutually
> exclusive.  Or, another approach would be to treat them as the same,
> but have a way to say use firewire for certain channels and svideo for
> others. 

What you need is "input groups". This available in the
mythtv-multirec branch. Do what Adrian describes, then
put both the analog input and the firewire input in the
same input group using the input connections pane of
mythtv-setup. This should allow MythTV to resolve the
conflicts for you.

-- Daniel




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