[mythtv-users] Cable card

[Peter Bennett]

On 4/9/21 11:57 AM, Steve Greene wrote:
> I had a problem with compiling the drivers to the orphan cablecard 
> tuner, the Ceton Infinitv 4 PCI-E. I'm going to replace it with a 
> Hauppauge WinTV DCR-2650, which is essentially an HDHomeRun. I've 
> notice my older recordings created with the Ceton no longer play 
> without the tuner present. Is there a way to fix this in the database? 
> Why does playback of an existing recording rely on the presence of the 
> tuner that created it, anyway?
>
I don't think the lack of that tuner is causing your problem. Playback 
of recordings does not need to access the tuner. Probably something else 
is happening. Perhaps the backend is failing to start because of the 
missing tuner? What error are you getting when trying to play?