[mythtv-users] Missed recordings and three encoders
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Jan 1 18:23:24 UTC 2010
On 01/01/2010 12:25 PM, Nikola Sprljan wrote:
> I have a Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T 500 dual tuner card and MythTV
> 0.21.20. The "Encoder status" section at the page ./mythweb/status
> shows that I have three encoders, and I can't figure out why would I
> have exactly three of them. First couple of columns of my capturecard
> and cardinput tables look as follows:
>
> Capturecard table
> +--------+-------------+-------------+-----------+----------+
> | cardid | videodevice | audiodevice | vbidevice | cardtype |
> +--------+-------------+-------------+-----------+----------+
> | 1 | 0 | | | DVB |
> | 2 | 0 | NULL | NULL | DVB |
> | 3 | 1 | | | DVB |
> +--------+-------------+-------------+-----------+----------+
>
> Cardinput table
> +-------------+--------+----------+-----------+
> | cardinputid | cardid | sourceid | inputname |
> +-------------+--------+----------+-----------+
> | 1 | 1 | 1 | DVBInput |
> | 3 | 3 | 1 | DVBInput |
> | 2 | 2 | 1 | DVBInput |
> +-------------+--------+----------+-----------+
>
> Since my tuner card is dual, my guess would be that either two or four
> encoders need to be present (four if each tuner has an additional
> "virual" tuner used for recording the programs on the same multiplex
> as the "real" tuner). I think there must be something wrong with my
> settings because any time encoder 3 is selected a recording created is
> void - there is a corresponding entry in the recordings but consisting
> of 0 bytes. Looking in the logs, this is when cardid 3 is being selected.
>
> I am a hoping someone here would be able to shed some light on this.
It's definitely broken, based only on what's shown above. I recommend
the capture card portion of
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/264034#264034 (which
should fix it--and without losing channels/needing to rescan).
Mike
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