[mythtv-users] explain defaultinput field in capturecard table in mythconverg

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

Hi,

My first query is: what is the exact semantics of this field? I notice that in the past
it defaulted to DVBInput but it now defaults to Television, so I have a mix of both.

I assume that this field tells the backend which input the capture card should sample,
and some cards do have multiple input sources (though I did not see where in the setup
one can select this).

On a more general subject, the way the kernel brings up DVB cards, they do not keep
their device names (/dev/dvb/adapter?) across boots. This means that mythtv cannot really
keep any parameters that are specific to one card but not to another. I have a mix of
card types.

Is this a problem, or does mythtv operate in a device agnostic way?
If this is a problem then I will probably need to differentiate the cards for udev
(or whatever assigns device names today).

TIA

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Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)