On Jan 22, 2006, at 3:13 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> RMH wrote: > >> back in March, Craig sent email with the subject "Conflict resolution >> between HD3000's NTSC and ATSC tuners?" but his email address is now >> bouncing. here's the archived message: >> >> http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2005-March/077576.html >> >> he apparently got his HD3000 working in both ATSC and NTSC modes, >> which is something i would like to do as well. for some reason, how >> to do this is not explained anywhere on the web that i can find. >> if i >> could get both modes to work using my one HD3000 card, i think i >> could >> program a conflict resolution into mythtv. > > Buried somewhere on the pcHDTV site, is an explanation of how the card > works. The cx88_dvb driver handles ATSC, the cx8800 driver handles > NTSC. > Only one driver at a time can talk to the hardware. > So you *should* be able to "rmmod cx88_dvb, modprobe cx8800" and watch > NTSC content, then "rmmod cx8800, modprobe cx88_dvb" for ATSC. > But that may or may not work. You might have to reboot in between. > And > even if you can do that, there is no guarantee that myth could handle > it....I suppose that an "external command" such as a channel change > could actually be a module changeover, but you would also have > problems > with the database, and the backend would surely choke on not being > able > to see one of the cards at startup... > The upcoming kernel "merger" of v4l and DVB should take care of this problem. At least I hope it does, as we will all deserve *something* for the inevitable pain that kernel changes cause. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
