[mythtv-users] One video source for multiple inputs (was Re: SVN 8625 Tuner Status strangeness)

[Michael T. Dean]

Tom Lichti wrote:

>Steve Adeff wrote:
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>>On Wednesday 18 January 2006 15:23, Michael T. Dean wrote:
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>>>On 01/17/06 22:42, Steve Adeff wrote:
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>>>>On Tuesday 17 January 2006 22:28, Chris Pinkham wrote:
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>>>>>>Tuner Status says Tuner 3 is recording, but the file being written is
>>>>>>2068_blah, so wouldn't that mean its Tuner 2?
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>>>>>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).
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>>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>ah. so the first digit is the source, not the tuner! vewy intwesting....
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>So I've got 4 different sources for 4 different cards (with the same 
>analog lineup) for nothing?
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Yep.  (If it makes you feel better, I'm pretty sure from a couple of 
other posts I've read that you're not the only one.)

> I'm sure I tried it with one source and it didn't work. What am I missing?
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Don't know.  What do (did) you have?  Did you associate that source with 
an input on each card?  It would be nice for you to fix it so you're not 
using 4x the DD bandwidth.

Mike