[mythtv-users] 2 video sources for hdpvr

[Raymond Wagner]

On 10/12/2013 8:53 PM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 19:42:12 -0400, you wrote:
>
>> So I have an hdpvr associated (input connections) with a schedules direct
>> lineup for directv. But the schedules direct lineup doesn't provide info
>> for the 700s channels for NFL games.
>>
>> So I'd like to use the xmltv grabber in conjunction with with SD since it
>> can supply the information that SD can't.  How can I accomplish this?  In
>> mythtv-setup it looks like a 1-1 mapping between capture device and video
>> source.
>
> I have no idea how Schedules Direct works, but if it downloads an
> XMLTV file, then it would be possible to use a grabber to create
> another XMLTV file and then write a script to extract bits from it and
> insert them into the other XMLTV file using the XMLTV tools or Python.
> For a long while here in New Zealand we had the TV1 channel
> broadcasting BBC World overnight, and our XMLTV grabber script scraped
> BBC World web page and merged that data into the grabbed XMLTV
> wherever it found "BBC World".

That's the only possible way to do what you want.  Use the Schedules 
Direct XMLTV grabber to pull data to a file, and then write your own 
pseudo-grabber to merge the two.