[mythtv-users] SVN 8625 Tuner Status strangeness

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Jan 18 23:08:23 UTC 2006


Bruce Markey wrote:

>Tom Lichti wrote:
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>>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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>My thought was that it would be strange to screw a list of channels
>into a PCI slot or get TV listings for Hauppauge ;-).
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Yeah.  I tried that first, but the list of channels kept catching fire.  
Should I create a ticket for that?  ;)

Mike


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