[mythtv-users] Guide selects worst tuner, remote selects best tuner---please help

[Nick Morrott]

On 15/01/2009, Steve Peters - Priority Electronics
<steve at priorityelectronics.com> wrote:

> Well, sometimes I just love linux. After a reboot one of my pvr-500 tuners
>  was gone, so I had to re-add it into myth. It had been changed from
>  /dev/video0 to /dev/video1 all on it's own so myth removed it (the second
>  tuner on the pvr-500 is /dev/video2 and my hd tuner was originally
>  /dev/video1 and now is /dev/video0). Once it was back in myth, myth is now
>  doing what I want it to do. Guess I'll never know the reason.
>
>  Just hope it doesn't crop up again.

With multiple cards and the potential for random /dev/video
assignments, it might be a good idea to use udev to control your video
devices to avoid this in the future.

Nick

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