[mythtv-users] Saving Tuning Delay

Alan Chandler alan at chandlerfamily.org.uk
Tue Jul 9 16:42:54 UTC 2013


On 09/07/13 14:00, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 07/09/2013 05:38 AM, Alan Chandler wrote:
>> I'm running an up to date backend from mythubuntu.
>>
>> I have just had my Pinnacle USB 2 HD tuner fail, so have been 
>> reconfiguring my backend to avoid attempts to use it to record stuff. 
>> This has entailed deleting all the capture cards and recreating them.
>
> Though this doesn't help with your other issue (and it's too late for 
> you), with 0.26 and above, there's no need to delete all capture cards 
> (since the order you define them is irrelevant now that we have a 
> user-specified Schedule and Live TV Order).  Instead, you simply need 
> to select the no-longer-used capture card and hit DELETE (by default 
> D) to delete a specific card definition.

Problem was, I initially didn't know which device was which and whether 
the HD tuner had failed.  I originally thought linux was showing me 4 
devices, but it was only later I realised that two of them were symlinks 
to the other.




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