[mythtv-users] input connections for dual tuner?

[Mike Bibbings]

On 31/12/13 19:52, UB40D wrote:
> This is something that I've done many times in past years but I'm 
> never sure if I'm getting it right.
>
> I have a dual tuner card. In setup / input connections I connect the 
> first capture device (/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0) to EIT and I do the 
> "scan for channels" which takes the best part of half an hour. Then I 
> set up the second capture device. What's the right thing to do here? 
> Scan for channels again (another half hour and potentially problems 
> later when the same show appears several times in the listing)? Or 
> should I attempt to recycle the previously done scan? How? If I click 
> "scan for channels", the "scan type" has an option of "import existing 
> scan" but then the next field is "scan to import" and the drop-down 
> arrow has no entries, despite me just having done the scan for adapter0.
>
> I am reading the official docs at 
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythTV-HOWTO#Input_Connections and don't 
> seem to understand what the right recipe for this should be.
>
>
You only need to scan once per video source. Just set the second tuner 
to use the same video source as the first.

Mike

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