[mythtv] mythtv tuner initialization

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Sat May 10 22:17:09 EDT 2003


On Saturday 10 May 2003 06:10 pm, Mark Chou wrote:
> I have a Hauppauge 401 tv-fm-dbx card.  I'd like to use the fm tuner
> portion to timeshift my favorite radio programs (NPR) on my mythtv box.
>
> However it seems that mythtv does not (re)initialize the tuner after I use
> the radio.  If I use the "radio" program from Gerd Knorr, and subsequently
> try to watch live tv via mythtv, mythtv tunes to the radio station, not the
> TV station.  I get a blue screen with fm audio.  If I restart mythbackend
> then I can tune in to live tv, no problems.
>
> This might be an exclusive V4L device access issue, I don't know.  Is
> there a way to get mythbackend to re-initialize the tuner right before
> watching live tv/recording tv?  Anyone have a clue on how this problem
> can be solved?

mythtv assumes that it's the only thing using the tuner.  If you don't like 
this behavior, send in a patch to change it, or turn the channel back to what 
it was at before you changed it.

Isaac


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