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

Christian Hack christianh at pdd.edmi.com.au
Mon Oct 27 21:20:27 EST 2003



> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Greg
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 October 2003 9:04 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Selecting Card to record with
> 
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Thanks Stefan,
> 
> I figured that may be the case... For now I'll just be more careful
> about setting up recordings so that I only using the software encoding
> card when I have to. I wondering if selecting the card to 
> record with is
> an option being considered at some point..
> 

You could try what I did for my 2 software encoding cards with my 1 DVB
card. I simply created a new videosource. What this results in is two
lots of channels with the same data. However I have named them so I have
2 and 2 Digital, 7 and 7 Digital etc. Because we only have 5 channels
where I live, it's not much of an issue for me to have 10 channels in
total.

It just means I have to be a little more selected with which channel I
pick when recording. However because Myth thinks they are two different
channels and the software cards can only receive 1 while the DVB card
receives the other, it correctly flags conflicts if I try and schedule
two shows on the digital card.

HTH

CH



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