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

Peter Childs peterachilds at gmail.com
Mon Jun 16 10:43:30 BST 2008


2008/6/16 Karl Buckland <karl at digital-end.com>:
> 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
>

I did not buy it, I was given the box :)

My brother inlaw purchased it and decided he did not have room for it
so gave it to us (To use, sell or find a good home). Nice computer
except for the TV card. I was nearly at the point of giving up until I
found the patch.

Regards

Peter

>
> 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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