[mythtv-users] Number of virtual tuners

[Pieter De Wit]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:44:42PM +0200, Karl Dietz (dekarl at spaetfruehstuecken.org) wrote:
>
>> You can record overlapping programs from one DVB card with the multirec
>> feature. By default each DVB cards gets added as 2 virtual tuners.
>> You can push that up to 5 in mythtv-setup.
>
> Is there some reason to that limit, by the way?
> I could use more: we have up to 10 channels per MUX,
> and I've already hit the limit - recorded 6 programs
> of same MUX at the same time, that is, using two
> cards where one would've been enough if I could've
> had more virtual tuners per card.
>
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> Tapani Tarvainen
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Hi,

I have (and currently are again) using 4 virtuals for my one card. I have 
to go back and see where the 8 came from.

Cheers,

Pieter