Andrew M. Kinnard wrote:
> I'm again wondering whether some interaction between the PVR-500
> being two tuners in one...
> I'm reminded of my never having found a menu from which to select the
> tuner, a menu on the mvpmc supposedly available during LiveTV from
> the info button on the remote.

You know I don't think I've ever seen that menu either, and although I 
pretty much never use Live TV, I did go through the operations a few 
times and updated the wiki documentation for it. I also have a PVR-500.

I vaguely recall not being able to find the menu, but I left the 
reference to it in the documentation, assuming it was just a limitation 
of my setup.

Does a menu to select tuners appear for anyone? (Anyone with 2 or more 
tuners installed in their MythTV back-end.)


On a side note, unless you're already accustomed to using the live TV 
functionality on a DVR, you might want to hold off on spending a lot of 
effort trying to get it to work. Most people find the performance 
(channel changing delay) of live TV on any home-brew DVR to be bad 
enough to discourage its use. That, plus the reduced desire to channel 
surf when you've got hundreds of gigs of known good shows to watch, 
makes live TV far less compelling.

About the only live TV I watch is a few minutes of news in the morning, 
and for that I just turn off the MVP and use the TV's tuner. (I've taken 
to recording the 12 PM, 5 PM, 6 PM, and 11 PM news casts (with a custom 
MythTV rule that keeps only the latest broadcast), as the news is so 
full of junk that I find I can watch a 30 minute broadcast in about 10 
minutes by skipping the useless junk and commercials. Sadly, TV news has 
really degraded in the last decade.)

  -Tom


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