[mythtv-users] Any UK HDHR users here?

[E James]

On 12/04/18 15:31, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi E,
> 
> Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 6:10:10 PM, you wrote:
> 
>> On 11/04/18 12:53, Justin Hornsby wrote:
>>> Ah well.
>>>
>>> I did say I only had one PCIe slot.. and it's occupied by something from nvidia :)
>>>
>>> £140ish for a quad tuner DVB-T2 card isn't too bad but I'd have to replace the mainboard (and probably the CPU) to be able to use it.
>>>
>>> Are there good open source drivers for it?  I'm not overly concerned but I prefer drivers for stuff to be in kernel.  I started out having to patch & build my own kernel & I'd love to think those days are behind me.
>>>
>>> I'm guessing the lack of other replies here means there aren't any UK HDHR paying attention to this list.  If multirec works - great - if not, no big deal.
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
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> 
>> I'm a UK HDHR user.
> 
>> I had to look up "multirec" to be sure of the meaning. I've only
>> been doing it since 2013. I currently possess 5 HDHomerun Connect
>> units. One is not in use because the psu failed. One is still in the
>> box. 2 are used by DVBLink software installed on my NAS box. It
>> definitely does not do multirec, and apparently never will, so the
>> maximum is 4 channels. The fifth and oldest is used by my MythTV box
>> which is a Shuttle nettop pc. In theory it can record 10 channels at
>> the same time (5 per tuner) but the practical limit seems to be 5 or
>> 6.
> 
> That means multirec! As I read it, it is your DVBlink software on your
> NAS that does not support multirec
> 
> Tot mails,
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Yes the limitation is in the DVBLink software. From what I know it seems to be a policy decision and my best guess for that decision is that the programmer who knows how to do the video work has left the team. I don't know how to do it, but I expect that the procedure for extracting an individual channel from the multiplex is similar to the procedure for extracting EIT data. If they can do one, why not the other. Extracting EIT data is something I would really like to do but I have yet to figure it out.