[mythtv] dual analogue/digital tuner support

Open Media Support support at openmedia.co.nz
Tue Nov 21 01:23:03 UTC 2006


Simon Kenyon wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 October 2006 16:03, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
>> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 13:58 +0100, Simon Kenyon wrote:
>> > ticket 1133 added support for analogue/digital tuners on the pcHDTV.
>> > is there any chance that this could be extended to the various other
>> > dual tuners?
>> > i've just bought a terratac hybrid xs usb stick, hence my question.
>>
>> As long as it has DVB and V4L drivers and they can both be
>> loaded at the same time it should be pretty easy. All I need
>> is the DVB Frontend name, and the v4l name. You can get the
>> DVB string by configuring the card as a DVB card and providing
>> me with the "mythbackend -v record | grep frontned" log, if
>> you have more than one DVB card tell me which one it is.
>>
>> For the V4L name I don't think there is any way for MythTV to
>> print it out, but you can get it by configuring the card as
>> an "Analog V4L capture card" and telling me what it says in
>> the "Probed info" section of the setup pane.
>>
>> Then open a ticket with both those bits of info and assign it
>> to me, I'll write up a patch and attach it to that ticket for
>> you to test.
>
> done
> ticket is 2617
> i cannot assign it to you (trac does not allow that any more)
>
> thanks for the help
> as soon as you have a patch i will test it
>
I've just added some more detail to the ticket as I've got a Hauppauge
HVR-900 tuner with the same issues. See http://www.mythtv.co.nz for some
info on getting it running here in New Zealand.

I have a full test environment so just let me know when there is a patch
available and i'll give it a try.

Steve

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