[mythtv-users] DVB-T Channel Scanning

[Alessandro Corbelli]

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On 05/10/2006 at 9.06 Richard Conway wrote:

>Clyde Stubbs wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 09:23:32AM +0200, Alessandro Corbelli wrote:
>>   
>>> On 04/10/2006 at 18.25 Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Nope, not true. it can record all the channels. It can only record
>>>> one of them at a time, which is probably what you read about.
>>>>       
>>> I think that if card has only one tuner, this should be normal.
>>>     
>>
>> Normal? Maybe, but nonetheless sub-optimal. A DVB tuner tuned to a
>> single channel delivers a full transport stream, which can then be
>de-multiplexed
>> into several program streams. There's no fundamental reason why
>> mythbackend couldn't record multiple programs from a single DVB tuner,
>> but it's not currently implemented, probably because the current
>architecture
>> is based on the analog model of only one program per tuner.
>>   
>I suppose it depends whether the de-multiplexing is done by the card or 
>by Myth.

It would be great....Single cheap DVB card and 10 channel simultaneously.