[mythtvnz] Recording two channels from one multiplex

[Paul Kendall]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Worik Stanton <worik.stanton at gmail.com> wrote:
> This may be a very simple question.
>
> Stephen Worthington, in a helpful reply to a different thread, said...
>
>> Once the tuner is set up and receiving data for the multiplex,
>> mythbackend then uses the serviceid value from the channel record to
>> select all the data streams for that channel out of the streams on the
>> multiplex.  The serviceid is transmitted in the data packets
>> identifying the channel on the multiplex.
>
> So I should be able to record all the channels from the multiplex
> simultaneously.
>
> Do I have to do anything to set that up?  How do I find out how?

On the backend setup (mythtv-setup) you need to set the number of virtual tuners
to the number of simultaneous recordings you need from a single multiplex.

You do this for each physical tuner that you have.

>
> cheers
> Worik
>
Cheers,
Paul