[mythtv-users] OT: DVB-T2 projects UK based

[David Watkins]

On 19 May 2011 20:13, mythtv . <mythtv at harley-jones.co.uk> wrote:
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 19 May 2011, at 19:38, Tom Hill <tom at ninjabadger.net> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 19:00 +0100, Roy Thompson wrote:
>>>
>>> The only oddity is that I added frontend0 through mythtv-setup and
>>> it appears as two encoders in mythweb:
>>>
>>> Encoder 1 [ DVB : /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 ]
>>> Encoder 4 [ DVB : /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0 ]
>>> Encoder 5 [ DVB : /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0 ]
>>>
>>> adapter0 is my existing nova-t stick
>>> adapter1 is the 290e
>>>
>>> is this normal?
>>>
>>> It originally showed up as encoders 2 and 3 but I deleted and
>>> re-added it, hence 4 and 5
>>
>>> From following this thread, I had received the impression that it was a
>> dual-tuner device?
>>
>> Tom
>>
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> Nope it looks like they are both single tuner devices. A dual device
> would have 2 adapter entries adapter1 and adapter2. The two adapter1
> entries looks like when you set up your new device you setup a virtual
> tuner.

Which is apparently the default for new DVB cards?  At least when I
did a clean install I got two virtual tuners as well.

The distinction is that you can only make two simultaneous recordings
from channels on the same multiplex as each other.