[mythtv-users] HDTV & NTSC same backend, 1 source

[David George]

Brian Foddy wrote:

>Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>I have a single backend with 4 cards,
>cardid's 1-3 are PVR250s,
>cardid 4 is a pcHDTV.
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Sounds like my setup, except that cardid 1 is pcHDTV and 2-4 are PVR-250.

>I've defined 1 broadcast source grabbing from datadirect.
>The source includes both ntsc and atsc channels.
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Do you actually care to receive NTSC over the air?  I have done the same 
thing but reception on the NTSC channels is poor here, so I only care 
about the ATSC channels.  I actually use cable to receive the local 
non-digital broadcast channels and Directv to receive the "cable" channels.

>I've gone through the database and renumbered the hd channels
>to 100+ the base number, and changed the corresponding 
>frequency to the proper hd value, and the tvformat of these
>records is all ATSC; the normal channels are default, being
>NTSC.
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>Whenever I select a program to record from the hd channels,
>it doesn't use cardid 4, but one of the lower ones.
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Have you tried to increase the priority for the ATSC channels on the 
HDTV card?  Of course you should have at least two lineups, because the 
PVR-250 isn't capable of HDTV so they shouldn't have those channels in 
the database as being available to record from.

>The only way I've historically been able to get the HD card
>to be used, is if I define a second source and duplicate
>all the channels all over.  But this is very cluttering on the
>program guide.  I've been all over the docs and forum lists,
>but can't find what I'm missing...
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The program guide shouldn't be cluttering as it joins the channels based 
on callsign(?).  I actually have 3 lineups on DataDirect.  One for 
broadcast, one for cable, and one for Directv.

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David