[mythtv-users] Converting MBE to SBE, tuners and video sources, HDHomerun

j2u4 j2u4 j2u44u at gmail.com
Wed Feb 24 05:40:21 UTC 2010


On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

>
> If you mean that it showed you 3 (virtual) tuners pointing to the same
> physical device, welcome to the world of multirec.  Myth can record multiple
> programs from a digital TV multiplex using a single physical tuner.  What
> you see is simply the configuration to allow this capability.  (Note that it
> applies only to digital capture cards.  If you see it with analog capture
> cards, you have a broken configuration.)
>
> Not having any idea what you did so far, I'd recommend you do the capture
> card portion of
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/264034#264034 (but your
> saying that you lost guide data implies that you may have broken other
> things meaning you'll need to also do the video sources portion of the same
> post).
>
> Note, also, that if you did not change the hostname of the physical
> machines (i.e. the master backend was called 'a' before the change and then
> you changed it to a remote backend, still called 'a', things shouldn't have
> broken).  If you changed the hostname, there could be a lot of brokenness in
> your database data, now, depending on exactly what you did.
>
>
  Thanks, did this. I think things are correct now. 4 tuners show up instead
of 5, and I think that is because of multirec.

J
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