[mythtv-users] digital vs analog stations

Timothy E. Krantz tkrantz at stahurabrenner.com
Fri Jan 18 21:47:38 UTC 2008


> > Was wondering if someone could give me a hint.
> >
> > I just got my Pinnacle 800i card working with MythTv.
> >
> > If I configure it to MythTV using the /dev/video0 device and scan 
> > stations I get my cable providers analog stations only.
> >
> > If I configure it with the /dev/dvb/adapter0 device and scan for 
> > stations using terristrial or QAM-256 I get my providers 
> unencrypted 
> > digital stations.
> >
> > Is there a way to get both sets of stations?  Itr seems 
> inadvisable to 
> > leave both defined to MythTV because I am sure bad things 
> would happen 
> > if the scheduler tried to use them both at the same time.
> 
> Why would that be a problem?
> 
>     If you have different versions of the same channel, then 
> MythTV will "just pick one" when something appropriate 
> happens to come on. If you have some reason to favor one 
> input over the other then you can set an input level 
> priority, a channel level priority or just mark certain 
> channels as not visible.

My guess is that it would be a problem if the scheduler tried to schedule 2
recordings on the same card on different channels.  i.e one on the dvb
driver instance of the card and one on the v4l driver instance. nAre you
sayiung that is a non issue?

> 
>      I use this approach to record local content that is 
> rebroadcast via DirecTV either off of dtv or OTA depending on 
> how good my OTA signal for a particular channel is.
> 
> >
> > Any input greatly appreciated.
> 
>     Just connect them both, get both running and recording 
> and then tweak the various priority rules until you get the 
> desired results.
> 
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