[mythtv-users] Some first impressions

[Ross Boylan]

On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 16:30 +0000, Simon Hobson wrote:
> I think you are confusing physical and logical tuners. Digital (ATSC 
> or DVB) is a relative newcomer, and supporting multirec was therefore 
> a "grafted in" feature that might not have been done the same way if 
> starting with a clean sheet. For a digital tuner, you can set the 
> number of tuners and this controls how many virtual instances are 
> created. Setting the tuner count to 2 means that you have two virtual 
> tuners (they show as separate tuners elsewhere in Myth) - but with 
> the limitation that they share a single physical tuner and hence must 
> both be working with the same digital multiplex.
> 
> What you should find is that you can record up to four programs at 
> once with your current setup - but 2 of them must be from a single 
> multiplex, and the other two must be from a single multiplex.
> Part of the confusion is down to the historical practice of treating 
> "channel" (=frequency) and "channel" (=collection of broadcast 
> content) as the same. With DVB, there are typically multiple 
> "channels" on each frequency.
I get channels 9.1, 9.2, and 9.3.  Are you saying I could record all 3
(if I set 3 virtual tuners) off a single hardware tuner, leaving the
other hardware tuner (in the HDHR box) still available to record
something else?

Cool!
Ross