[mythtvnz] one PVR-150 card, two inputs in use at once?

Nick Rout mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Tue, 6 Dec 2005 20:47:54 +1300


On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 20:20:56 +1300 (NZDT)
criggie@criggie.dyndns.org wrote:

> Before I get busy rearranging machines and pieces... is it possible for a
> linux box to use the tuner on a PVR-150 for mythtv, and at the same time
> to use the composite input for another process?
> 
>

nope. each v4l device can only have one input selected at a time AFAIK.

Of course you could get a PVR-500 which is two 150's on one card. It
presents to the system as two devices: /dev/video0 and /dev/video1