[mythtv-users] Great experience with MythTV

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Another Sillyname
<anothersname at googlemail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Just to add an information footnote to this thread.
>
> If you have different tuner card types in your backend you can find
> that sometimes they will load in the Kernel in a different order, this
> is down to how fast a card starts up and signals it's availability in
> either a warm or cold reboot.
>
> Therefore if you have a mix of physical card types it's wise to
> blacklist them all loading on boot and write a script that loads them
> in a specific order with sleep commands between each card load
> command, this will avoid you for example trying to record DVB-T
> recordings in your DVB-S card that loaded quicker this boot.

Or do what the system is designed to do and make udev rules so that
the dvbs card is always /dev/dvb/sat-card and the dvbt card is always
/dev/dvb/terrestial-card (or whatever naming system works for you).

Also under your scheme you risk mythbackend starting before the cards
are loaded fully, a combination of your sleep commands and the fact
that the script to start them is probably quite a long way down the
startup train.

If you use udev, you can write your mythbackend init script to ensure
that it loads after udev is finished, I read how to do this in the
mythbuntu forums, and will find a link if anyone wants one.