On Friday 04 November 2005 00:20, Greg Woods wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 15:53 -0500, Dewey Smolka wrote: > > There are an awful lot of postings on the list, mostly from new users, > > about live TV. The fact is that Myth can do live TV, but it is not > > really what Myth is for, and once you begin to use it, you'll find > > live TV less and less relevant -- it's useful to ensure that the card > > works, but you don't actually watch TV with it. > > I can find one reason to watch live TV with it: PIP. Not many shows will > lend themselves to watching more than one thing at a time, but one thing > does: sporting events. People are likely to think I'm slightly insane > for this, but last Saturday I actually had four football games on at the > same time; one on a frontend-only laptop, one in the TV's PIP screen, > one in Myth's PIP screen, and one on the main screen. While it is indeed > impossible to really follow all the details of what is happening in all > four games at once, it is possible to keep track of the basic flow of > all the games, and pay attention to a particular one when there's a key > play. PIP does not seem to work while watching a recording, it only > works in Live TV mode, so that's one use for Live TV mode. > > > There are quite a number of > > 500 users, but it seems like there's a lot of postings about problems > > getting both tuners to work simultaneously. > > It's a bit tricky to do the initial install. I ended up creating an ivtv > startup script that I could put in /etc/rc.d/init.d (FC3) just to get > the proper ivtvctl commands run automatically at every reboot. I think > this is mostly because the ivtv drivers are still under development and > are not fully mature. > > > getting the PVR 500 to work on both tuners begs the > > question of how much you know about Linux, and how much effort you're > > willing to put into getting the card to work. > > That's a fair statement. > > > >From what I understand, the PVR 500 works well with the new ivtv > > > > drivers, but the card will show up as two separate PVR 150s -- > > /dev/video0 and /dev/video1. Inside mythtv-setup, you need to specify > > the capture sources as tuner0 on each rather than tuner0 and tuner1 on > > /dev/video0. > > Even though this has been covered here many times, it continues to > confuse Myth newbies. And that's understandable; why would it show two > tuners on two cards, when there is really one card with two tuners? Goes > back to the "under development" ivtv drivers. But those immature drivers > do work quite well once you get them set up properly. > > > I also understaqnd that there are issues getting audio to > > work on both tuners. > > Same thing again. My ivtv startup script runs the necessary ivtvctl > commands to make this work. > > In my case, the 500 was a godsend, because my computer room is at the > end of a long coax run from the cable outlet in the living room, and I > could never get a splitter in the computer room to work; it always > degraded the signal to intolerable levels. The 500 was the only way I > could get more than one tuner in my master backend. > > --Greg
the talk of PIP on HDTV a while got me thinking about this. How cool would it be to be able to have, say 4 channels showing at once? Imagine being able to watch 4 games at once?! It would be great, especially if you've got an HDTV and show 4 SD feeds on it. wow.... Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users