[mythtv] Guide selects worst tuner, remote selects best tuner---please help

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/13/2009 04:16 PM, Steve Peters - Priority Electronics wrote:
> Hello. This is the strangest issue I've had to confront with my mythbox over
> the past year/year and a half of using myth.
>
> I recently got an ATI HDTV Wonder card. It took over /dev/video1 and moved
> my second pvr-500 tuner to /dev/video2, and that gave myth all kinds of
> problems, so I removed all the tuners from the myth setup and just re-added
> them like it was a new install.
>
> Each tuner (I have 3 now) has a different priority attached to it:
> Analog pvr-500 cable input: 0
> S-video pvr-500 cable box input: 2
> HDTV tuner: 4
>
> Also, I set them up in that same order so that the HDTV would be the main
> tuner when you go to live tv. That is the case.
>
> When I change from an hdtv channel to a non hdtv channel, myth switches over
> to the s-video input on the pvr-500 just fine. But, when I am watching hdtv
> and go to the guide and change the channel there, it changes it to the
> analog cable input...which of course has the worst picture which is why it
> should be last on my list.
>
> Why is myth doing this? Why can't the guide change over to the same tuner as
> the remote does when you just enter in the channel number and press ok?
>
> -Any ideas?

This is really a question for -users.

Mike