[mythtv] pcHDTV: dual input

[Isaac Richards]

On Monday 29 December 2003 07:19 pm, Chris Eldredge wrote:
> That's interesting.  I noticed when hacking bttv a little that it had a
> int indicating which input had the tuner.  But the real question is does
> MythTV actually care?  I haven't looked, will do so later, but it could
> just as easily try to tune an input without caring which one it is, then
> handle an error if the input isn't tunable.  Even if it does check now I
> think that's a simlpe enough fix.
>
> The other option, which I think may require more changes to MythTV would
> be to get myth to understand that the same card can pull an mpeg stream
> and grab ntsc, and set up the device based on a flag in the channel table.
>  I heard that MythTV, as a result of class design, is not easily able to
> handle 2 different formats on the same hardware device, and still handle
> proper resource allocation/conflict resolution.

'as a result of class design'?  That's hilarious.

Isaac