Dual DVB-T tuner - but only one program at a time (1 Viewer)

d3cadent

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Dear Gurus,

I am using MP 1.1.0 Final with an Alcor DTV Duo tuner - a USB DVB-T device built around the ITE Tech AF9010 chip with dual tuner support ( ITE Tech. Inc. ).
The software supplied with it is TotalMedia 3.5.

Under TotalMedia, both tuners work as expected. You can use both tuners as you normally would - watch one while recording another, or PiP two programs on the screen at once.

In MediaPortal, however, I can only use one of the tuners at a time. They are shown as two separate tuners in TV Server. I can scan and find channels on both. I can start Timeshift or Recording on any of the tuners (there is a bi-color LED that shows which tuner is in use), but not both at the same time. If I have timeshift running on the first tuner, then starting another timeshift on the second tuner, then the first would stop timeshifting.

Has anybody seen anything like this? Is it a MediaPortal issue at all?

Cheers,

d3ca
 

Owlsroost

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    It's hard to know - I run an AF9015-based dual-tuner USB dongle under Vista and that works fine, but are you running XP ?

    Can you manually start two recordings from within MP (not via the TVserver config) - they need to be on different DVB-T muxes to get it to use 2 tuners - or start a recording and then watch live TV on another channel on a different mux - does that work ?

    Tony
     

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