[mythtv-users] Is there a tuner limit? (problem with >8 tuners)

[Janne Grunau]

On Monday 20 August 2007 13:32:11 Chris Wilkie - NetrinoUK wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I've been pointed here by the chaps on the MythDora forum, hoping to
> gain some advice on getting a box working with 12 tuners (6 x Nova-T
> 500 dual tuner PCI cards).  I am able to get the first four cards
> working, giving 8 tuners, but the last two throw errors when trying
> to load the driver.

Increase the DVB_MAX_ADAPTERS define in 
drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c.

Depending on the mythtv version you have to make different changes in 
the mythtv code to add more than 8 dvb devices.
In trunk it's the SpinboxSetting in the class DVBCardNum in  
libs/libmythtv/videosource.cpp

HTH Janne