[mythtv-users] problem using 2nd capture card

[Jos Bouten]

Michael T. Dean wrote:

>On 05/28/2006 07:02 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
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>>On May 28, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Jos Bouten wrote:
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>>>I am running mythtv on FC4: 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 on an i686 athlon i386
>>>GNU/Linux
>>>I've got 2 Hauppauge PVR 150's who are detected by the drivers (see  
>>>below).
>>>When installing the second card this is how I configured it: I plugged
>>>it in, added a capture card, hooked it up via the input connections
>>>screen of the setup program and configured its channels via mysql.
>>>I have been able to watch tv via card 0 and 1, can switch from 0 to 1
>>>and back and also can use PIP nicely.
>>>But if I schedule 2 recordings that overlap in time, the first  
>>>recording
>>>is often (not always) stopped as soon as the starting time for the
>>>second is reached. So it seems that the system 'thinks' it has only  
>>>one
>>>capture card available (or at least most of the time). Another  
>>>probably
>>>related problem is that sometimes I can and sometimes I can not  
>>>watch tv
>>>while the system is making a recording but the odd thing is:  
>>>sometimes I
>>>can. In the latter situation also it seems that there is only one card
>>>available.
>>>It may be that I missed something while configuring the 2nd capture  
>>>card
>>>and that this is easily solved, but I've not been able to do so myself
>>>nor did I find anything similar in the mailing archives.
>>>Any suggestions?
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>>Clearly Myth knows about the second card, or you would not be able to  
>>use PiP ever, or switch between cards etc.
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>>You said that you configured the channels via mysql, if you mean you  
>>went into mysql manually it's hard to know what you have set up, why  
>>not configure the channels using mythsetup
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Dear Michael,

thx for your response.

>Definitely!!!
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>However, it sounds like you've configured both cards to use the same 
>device (i.e. /dev/video0 or something), so you're "crashing" the first 
>recording when the second starts.
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No, I gave them separate device names from the start and tried whether 
they produced any data using cat /dev/video0 etc
So they are
cardid 1 /dev/video0
cardid 2 /dev/video1


I'll backup my database and then try mythsetup again for both cards.

Jos