[mythtv-users] multirec <- Setup Tuners / Capture Cards
Nick Morrott
knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Sun Apr 20 14:37:04 UTC 2008
On 20/04/2008, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Reading from:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Record_multiple_channels_from_one_multiplex#Setup_Tuners_.2F_Capture_Cards
>
> If you want to use the multirec feature, you need to delete your
> multirec-compatible capture cards in mythtv-setup, recreate them as
> before, and then (key step) choose the desired number of 'virtual'
> tuners for each card using the Record options (Max Tuners default=2).
>
> Setting the number of virtual tuner >1 for a capture card enables
> multirec and governs how many parallel recordings can be made from a
> capture card, assuming the channels to be recorded from are broadcast on
> the same multiplex.
>
> You may need to rescan your DVB channels to allow this function to work
>
> Question:
>
> Is the absolute max 5 for this setting?
> I can't increase the number of tuners beyond that.
You can overcome this setting by editing the source code directly.
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Nick Morrott
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