[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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