[mythtv-users] Suddenly MythTV refuses to use both tuners

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Carl-Magnus Björkell <
carl-magnus.bjorkell at pp.inet.fi> wrote:

> Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Carl-Magnus Björkell
> > <carl-magnus.bjorkell at pp.inet.fi
> > <mailto:carl-magnus.bjorkell at pp.inet.fi>> wrote:
> >
> >     Mark Knecht wrote:
> >      > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Carl-Magnus Björkell
> >      > <carl-magnus.bjorkell at pp.inet.fi
>  >     <mailto:carl-magnus.bjorkell at pp.inet.fi>> wrote:
> >      >> Hi,
> >      >>
> >      >>
> >      >> I'm using MythTV on a openSUSE box, and upgrade to the newest
> mythtv
> >      >> packages (packaged by packman) fairly often. I have two DVB-C
> >     tuners,
> >      >> one which is equipped with a CI-reader for my Conax card to watch
> >      >> encrypted channels.
> >      >>
> >      >> Myth has been conffed to use the unencrypted card whenever
> >     possible when
> >      >> recording, so that the "better" card is free for live-tv if
> needed.
> >      >>
> >      >> A couple of weeks ago I started noticing that while one of the
> >     tuners
> >      >> where recording, I could not get a channel lock with the other
> >     tuner.
> >      >> Now I would think that this would be related to signal strength,
> >     were it
> >      >> not for one thing: All recordings have also started to be
> >     scheduled ONLY
> >      >> on the Conax-capable card. Both tuners work fine if the other is
> not
> >      >> active (I've tried changing inputs etc, and it works).
> >      >>
> >      >> AFAIK no configuration has been changed, and this setup has
> >     worked like
> >      >> a charm unchanged since the release of 0.21 (with the exception
> of a
> >      >> change from XML-tv parsed programdata to EIT scans.)
> >      >>
> >      >> Has anyone had any similar problems lately, and more
> >     importantly, does
> >      >> anyone have any idea about what could be causing this?
> >      >>
> >      >> As I said I've been using Packmans packages. The current version
> >     I have is:
> >      >> MythTV Branch    : branches/release-0-21-fixes
> >      >> Library API      : 0.21.20080304-1
> >      >>
> >      >>
> >      >> Greets,
> >      >> -Calle
> >      >
> >      > I had a very similar problem. It turned out that my second tuner
> was
> >      > constantly recording Live TV and therefore became unavailable at
> any
> >      > time to record programs. It seems an unfortunate default setting
> in
> >      > Myth is to not show Live TV recordings in the media library so we
> >      > didn't even notice this was happening until my wife asked why we
> had
> >      > no disk space when we only had a few hours of recordings.
> >      >
> >      > You can look at your disk space usage or set the menu in the media
> >      > library to show Live TV.
> >      >
> >      > Probably you don't have the same problem but it's easy to find if
> >     you do.
> >      >
> >      > Take care,
> >      > Mark
> >
> >     Thanks for the suggestion. It was, just as you said, a long shot, and
> it
> >     doesn't seem to be the problem. I only have LiveTV recordings of
> shows I
> >     have actually watched, and I have plenty of free disk space.
> >
> >     Checking the encoder status in mythweb also gives me:
> >     Encoder 1 is local on juggernaut and is not recording.
> >     Encoder 2 is local on juggernaut and is not recording.
> >
> >     Keep the ideas coming :)
> >
> >
> > Do you have them configured in an input group which would instruct Myth
> > that they cannot be used at the same time similar to a tuner and s-video
> > connection to the same STB?
> >
> > Kevin
> >
>
> Not knowingly no, but it could be possible I suppose. I just checked the
> myth-setup screens, and couldn't find anything about input groups. Where
> can I tinker with stuff like that?


I think it is under Capture Cards or Input Connections.  I'd have to poke
around myself to find it.  But it should be in one of those places, my gut
says Input Connections.

Kevin
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