[mythtv-users] Multi-tuner setup

[Gordon McCrae]

On 08/04/10 12:50, Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 6 April 2010 08:37, shacky <shacky83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi.
>>
>> I wish to setup the second tuner of my WinTV Nova-T 500 DVB-T dual tuner card.
>> I added the second tuner to the source setup in mythtv-setup, but I
>> still cannot record two programs at the same time (the program with
>> lowest priority is showed in red in mythweb).
>> Have I to insert all channels a second time for the second tuner? Both
>> tuners can tune the same channels (they are connected to the same
>> antenna).
>>
>> Where I am wrong?
>>     
> Have you configured multirec (max number of recordings >1 for capture
> card) for your tuners? Is each tuner in its own input group?
>
> What information does MythWeb give for your encoder status (Backend
> status page)?
>
> Nick
>
>   
Just to be clear:

1) Setup each tuner under "Capture Cards"
2) Setup a single "Freeview" source under "Video Sources"
3) Setup input connections for each DVB tuner (DVB0 & DVB1) under "Input
Connections"
4) Tune for channels under "Channel Editor"

Is that what you've done? It sounds like you may have missed step (3)
for the second DVB tuner. Multirec is a red herring as this allows a
single tuner to tune multiple channels from a single multiplex, not to
tune multiple multiplexes.

This does highlight that it would be a really nice feature to have a
"dump config in readable text" option for mythtv-setup, so that we could
post the output in these sort of circumstances, maybe someone with SQL
skills could write a query (or maybe they already have and I've just not
seen it).

Cheers
Gordon