[mythtv-users] Dual Tuners

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Thu Nov 6 10:52:11 EST 2003


On Thursday 06 November 2003 10:22, Lonny Selinger wrote:
> I was just wondering if the simple test I used on my PVR-250 for
> capturing, should work the same on a ATI TV Wonder VE (cat
> /dev/videox >> test.mpg). I just installed another tuner (the ATI)
> and it shows registering device video1 but I get an error trying
> capture anything. Is it possible there are just arguments I need to
> specify when loading the bttv module?

Nope; won't work.  That method works for a PVR-x50 because the output is 
already an encoded MPEG-2 stream.  The TV Wonder VE is an analog (V4L) 
card.  If you want to test whether the card is working correctly, use 
xawtv.

-JAC



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