[Klug-general] Re: Help with Linux TV Server (Myth) Needed?

[Karl Buckland]

I hate to say it, but I did recommend looking at the supported hardware on
mythtv.org first:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Video_capture_cards

Getting an unsupported card to work can be a complete nightmare as you are
discovering.

Karl


2008/6/16 Peter Childs <peterachilds at gmail.com>:

> 2008/6/16 Karl Buckland <karl at digital-end.com>:
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > I'm glad you found a solution. Myth can deal with cards with multiple
> tuners
> > - I have a Hauppauge DVB-T-500 and that has 1 input and two tuners. I
> guess
> > it depends more on the driver than anything else though, right?
> >
> > Could you not write a startup script to automate those commands? I don't
> > know enough about udev to be able to answer your question...
> >
>
> That might be the quicker answer, In theory you can write a udev rule
> to do this but I'm note sure how.... I'm sure ln -s is not the right
> command!
>
> Its not that the machine has multiple tuner its that it has a tuner
> with a multiple frontends ie 1 tuner that that can be a satellite
> tuner or a freeview tuner just not both at the same time. So Myth has
> to have some "knowledge" of this fact to know thats its an either, or
> but not both at once.
>
> Hence Myth needs to know about the second tuner front end and also
> know that it can't use both front ends at once..... From what I read
> myth handles multiple tuners as they appear as separate adapters even
> when on the same device.
>
> I don't like having to recompile v4l to get it working :(
>
> Regards
>
> Peter
> PS has the mailing list been having some problems over the weekend?
>
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