[mythtv-users] SVN 8625 Tuner Status strangeness

Tom Lichti tom at redpepperracing.com
Wed Jan 18 21:07:57 UTC 2006


Steve Adeff wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 15:23, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> On 01/17/06 22:42, Steve Adeff wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tuesday 17 January 2006 22:28, Chris Pinkham wrote:
>>>       
>>>>> Tuner Status says Tuner 3 is recording, but the file being written is
>>>>> 2068_blah, so wouldn't that mean its Tuner 2?
>>>>>           
>>>> No, the 2068 is the chanid.  This is probably the second source you
>>>> setup (whether you have 2 or had 1 and deleted it and added another).
>>>>         
>>> So source and tuner are not the same... strange, but I guess it doesn't
>>> really matter. I'll just have to remember 2 and 3 are backwards.
>>>       
>> Source as in "video sources" as in channel lineups.  Has nothing to do
>> with capture cards/tuners/inputs.  I have one source and 2 capture cards
>> and set up a box with one source and 4 capture cards.  Every one of my
>> recordings (and every recording on the 4 card box) starts with "1" (i.e.
>> 1009_xxx, 1035_xxx) regardless of which tuner records them.
>>
>> Mike
>>     
>
> ah. so the first digit is the source, not the tuner! vewy intwesting....
>   
So I've got 4 different sources for 4 different cards (with the same 
analog lineup) for nothing? I'm sure I tried it with one source and it 
didn't work. What am I missing?

Tom


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