[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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