[mythtv] One STB connected to Firewire and TV card. Need to force mythtv to record one at a time

Stanley Merkx mythtv at merkx.demon.nl
Fri Nov 9 20:16:42 UTC 2007


> On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 14:08 -0500, Darwin O'Connor wrote:
>> I have a sa3258HD digital box connected to my computer via both Firewire
>> and SVideo to my old ATI TV Wonder card.
>>
>> I use Rogers Cable in Canada and many channels are blocked from using
>> the Firewire port, and I can't complain or they turn Firewire back off.
>>
>> I've got things set up to record the channels I can via Firewire and the
>> rest with the TV Card. The problem is that myth thinks they are two
>> separate sources and tries to record both at the same time, but it can't
>> because they are both connected to the same box tuned to one channel.
>
> What you want is input groups. It's implemented in the multirec branch.
> There you just need to put the shared inputs in the same input group
> and it will keep MythTV from recording from both inputs at the same
> time.
>
> -- Daniel
>

Is there a timeline known yet when -multirec will be merged into -trunk?

Regards,
Stanley.



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