[mythtv-users] TV Tuners, backend PC, etc

[Simon Hobson]

Michael T. Dean wrote:

>  >> AIUI, when a user selects Live TV, the system will pick a tuner for
>>>  them to use. At this point, the user can only select channels
>>>  available on that tuner. If they want channels from another tuner,
>>>  then they must manually switch card and then select a channel.
>>>  Ie, you CANNOT just select a channel number and have the system
>  >> select a tuner that can provide it and is free.

>  > When I'm watching live TV on a QAM tuner and select a channel that is only
>>  available on one of my firewire tuners, Myth automatically switches tuners
>  > for me.

>Yes.  What Simon says only holds true if a) you're using digital capture
>on a multi-rec tuner and b) someone else (either a recording or other
>Live TV instance) has locked the physical tuner on a multiplex, thereby
>trapping you since you don't have a "real" (physical) tuner for Live TV.

So, you are saying that if I have (say) a DVB-T tuner and a DVB-S 
tuner, with different channels available on each (with some overlap), 
I can go into live TV, select a channel, and Myth will switch between 
tuners as required ? So I could keep pressing next-channel - and 
could be flipping between the tuners all the time.
That's a very significant change from what I've been led to belive in the past.

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