[mythtv-users] Configuring multiple video sources?

[Gunnar Strand]

Michael T. Dean skrev:
> On 02/23/2009 03:38 PM, Gunnar Strand wrote:
>> I think I've understood that Video Sources are really program listing 
>> sources (strange name). But it seems very limited to only be able to 
>> point only one Video Source per capture card.
> 
> No, actually a video source is a source of video programming content.  
> Therefore, since you can only plug one source of content into a single 
> input of a card, you can point only one video source per (/input/ of a) 
> capture card.
> 
> The program listings source is the source of listings data describing 
> the content available through a video source.  What you actually want is 
> a way to associate multiple listings sources with a single video 
> source--but it's completely unnecessary functionality in Myth...

Thanks for the clarification. Since I don't have any other source,
I guess it's easy to be confused, especially since there is only
a 1-to-1 relationship between video source and program listing, while
a satellite can have a lot of channels from various providers.

>> . If I make the means to fetch the listings for the other channels, 
>> how can I connect the new source to the DVB-S card in MythTV?
>>
>> Do I need to create a video source wrapper, e.g. my own XMLTv grabber, 
>> which would make MythTV think that it's still getting data from one 
>> source?
> 
> Kind of, but actually xmltv provides all the tools you need.  See tv_cat 
> (and the info about it/other XMLTV tools on the xmltv 
> lists/fora/wikis/...).
> 
>> And on a similar note, I would really like to see a global database of 
>> all channels on all satellites, which would point out which grabber 
>> provides the listing for each channel. Then this awkward way of 
>> mapping XMLTv program id to channels (manually) would be a glorious 
>> memory of the past. Has anyone seen something like this? 
> 
> That's definitely an XMLTV-related thing, and I think there has been 
> some talk of doing something like that (but extending beyond 
> satellite).  I think Chris Petersen has done some work toward it.

Thanks, I'll see if I can find more info about it.

KR,
Gunnar