- April 27, 2007
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I have discovered an interesting issue with my setup that might prove useful to other users, and also provide a way of improving TV server.
I have two TV cards - a Pinnacle Dual DVB-T and a Hauppage HVR1300.
When I scan DVB-T channels with the pinnacle tuners, two of the six muxes don't tune to the default mid-point frequency settings but to the upper frequency.
However, the HVR1300 DVB-T locks onto the signal with the default frequency mid-points for all six.
Now TV-Server only seems to store one set of tuning information for each DVB-T channel detected. If I set up the channels initially on the Pinnacle card and then scan channels with the HVR1300, I can no longer tune into some of these on the Pinnacle tuners due to the way TV-Server 'Updates' the channel tuning information. The converse is true if I do the last scan with the HVR-1300.
The only workaround I can use is to do the last scan with the Twin Pinnacle card so that the channels all work fine with that, and manually deselect channels mapped to the HVR1300 that it can then not tune. This enables me to use all three DVB-T tuners for about half of the channels, but I am restricted to two tuners for the rest.
This may be an issue unique to me, but if not, it would be a big improvement if there was an option to retain exact tuning information for each tuner+channel rather than just each channel across all tuners. I could perhaps then use the 'Combine Channels' feature to bring them back together in the EPG.
I have two TV cards - a Pinnacle Dual DVB-T and a Hauppage HVR1300.
When I scan DVB-T channels with the pinnacle tuners, two of the six muxes don't tune to the default mid-point frequency settings but to the upper frequency.
However, the HVR1300 DVB-T locks onto the signal with the default frequency mid-points for all six.
Now TV-Server only seems to store one set of tuning information for each DVB-T channel detected. If I set up the channels initially on the Pinnacle card and then scan channels with the HVR1300, I can no longer tune into some of these on the Pinnacle tuners due to the way TV-Server 'Updates' the channel tuning information. The converse is true if I do the last scan with the HVR-1300.
The only workaround I can use is to do the last scan with the Twin Pinnacle card so that the channels all work fine with that, and manually deselect channels mapped to the HVR1300 that it can then not tune. This enables me to use all three DVB-T tuners for about half of the channels, but I am restricted to two tuners for the rest.
This may be an issue unique to me, but if not, it would be a big improvement if there was an option to retain exact tuning information for each tuner+channel rather than just each channel across all tuners. I could perhaps then use the 'Combine Channels' feature to bring them back together in the EPG.
