[mythtv-users] Re: Selecting Card to record with

[Stefan Frank]

Greg <geflatt at hfx.eastlink.ca> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to determine is there is a way to select the tuner to
> record with when marking a show to record. The reason I ask is a just
> installed a PVR-250 card along side my software encoding BTTV card and I
> can't figure out how to make sure a program I record uses the PVR250
> card as opposed to the other card. 
>
> For the most part I would like to have the PVR250 as the default card
> and the BTTV card as the backup card. This way I can burn the result
> MPEG2 file from the PVR to DVD. I've looked into the advanced recording
> screen but have not been able to find a card selection option.

MythTv will always use the first card you defined, and only schedule a
parallel recording to the 2nd tuner card. So you probably have a similar
setup as i had. To make the PVR card the default one, i think what would
work is to start setup on the backend and answer Yes to the first
question 'clear all capture card settings' only.

I took a slightly more complicate route to make my PVR350 the default
card by dropping and recreating the capturecard, cardinput, codecparams and
recordingprofiles[1] tables and re-defining my tuner cards in the proper
order. Only afterwards i found that option in setup to delete the tuner
cards settings, but my way also worked without a problem.

>
> PS is there a way to remove a profile from 'Record Profiles'?
>

not that i know of, but there's always 'mysql> ' :)

HTH, Stefan


[1] you need to fill some values according to dbcheck.cpp line ~167.

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