[mythtv-users] shuttle + 2nd video card

[Brad Templeton]

On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 04:19:42PM +0100, Sim wrote:
> On Friday 07 Jan 2005 11:53, spok wrote:
> > 1.  With only 1 AGP and 1 PCI slots can I still get 2
> > video capture (or tuner) cards and do picture in
> > picture?  


On another note, I have to say that PIP is a feature I effectively
stopped using entirely once I got a PVR.   The 2 or 3 times I have
used it in the last few years have been to have PVR content on the
main screen and some live item I was tracking (news, sports or closed
circuit video) in the PIP box.

If you think about it, why would you want PIP watching PVR recordings?
If one of the recordings is doing something dull, you fast forward it to
where it's interesting, and watch that part, then you do the same with
the other recording.

If you want to watch something live in the PIP box, your TV's built-in
PIP will do that job for you.  They almost all have those.

But perhaps I miss something.  Why do you want to use PIP on two
different recordings?

Because the other answer to the "more tuners" question is to have
another backend.   Indeed, I think the right answer is to have the
big, noisy backend with all the tuners far away, and the nice silent
SFF frontend next to the TV with perhaps one tuner and possiby not even
a disk drive.