[mythtv-users] Missed recordings and three encoders

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/01/2010 12:25 PM, Nikola Sprljan wrote:
> I have a Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T 500 dual tuner card and MythTV 
> 0.21.20. The "Encoder status" section at the page ./mythweb/status 
> shows that I have three encoders, and I can't figure out why would I 
> have exactly three of them. First couple of columns of my capturecard 
> and cardinput tables look as follows:
>
> Capturecard table
> +--------+-------------+-------------+-----------+----------+
> | cardid | videodevice | audiodevice | vbidevice | cardtype |
> +--------+-------------+-------------+-----------+----------+
> |      1 | 0           |             |           | DVB      |
> |      2 | 0           | NULL        | NULL      | DVB      |
> |      3 | 1           |             |           | DVB      |
> +--------+-------------+-------------+-----------+----------+
>
> Cardinput table
> +-------------+--------+----------+-----------+
> | cardinputid | cardid | sourceid | inputname |
> +-------------+--------+----------+-----------+
> |           1 |      1 |        1 | DVBInput  |
> |           3 |      3 |        1 | DVBInput  |
> |           2 |      2 |        1 | DVBInput  |
> +-------------+--------+----------+-----------+
>
> Since my tuner card is dual, my guess would be that either two or four 
> encoders need to be present (four if each tuner has an additional 
> "virual" tuner used for recording the programs on the same multiplex 
> as the "real" tuner). I think there must be something wrong with my 
> settings because any time encoder 3 is selected a recording created is 
> void - there is a corresponding entry in the recordings but consisting 
> of 0 bytes. Looking in the logs, this is when cardid 3 is being selected.
>
> I am a hoping someone here would be able to shed some light on this.

It's definitely broken, based only on what's shown above.  I recommend 
the capture card portion of 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/264034#264034 (which 
should fix it--and without losing channels/needing to rescan).

Mike