[mythtvnz] Now I'm using two sources...

[Steven Ellis]

On Mon, July 2, 2007 3:07 pm, Wade Maxfield wrote:
>>For the last 2 years I've been using the svideo input to a PVR150 card
>>from a Sky STB. I now have a SkyStar card so I have 2 sources. This has
>>changed the user interface in the following areas:
>>
>>* I've set the priority of the Sat card higher than the PVR150 so that =
it
>>is the preferred source for recordings - it also seems to make it the
>>preferred LiveTV source which I thought would take the lowest priority
>>source :-(
>
> Try toggling the Avoid Conflicts settings in  Settings > TV
> Settings > General (page 1)
>
>
>>* when browsing in LiveTV mode I can only browse the current source -
>>seems to be a bit of a limitation or is it just me! A PITA if the Sat
>> card
>>(with all 3 channels available on it) is the default.
>
> Hit "Y" to switch cards.

This is still confusing. Shame there isn't a sensible way to up/down
browse across all inputs.

>>* Playback seems a bit jerky now - although this may be coincidental wi=
th
>>the latest ffmpeg resync introducing various problems on Via C2 CPUs.
>>
>
> Is that for all recordings, or only ones from the SkyStar2?  I find
> that DVB-S recordings suffer from a little jerkiness, most often when
> the OSD appears or fades out.  This is on an Athlon64 3200+ or
> X24600+, so I'm not normally starved for CPU, it just seems that's
> the way it is.

This is a bug in 0.20-fixes that isn't present in 0.20-svn. I've submitte=
d
the patches required for a backport, but no one has picked them up.



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