[pvrusb2] Accessing 2nd tuner on PVR-USB2?

[Mike Isely]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Brett Granger wrote:

> Hopefully this is not a trivially simple question, but I haven't been 
> able to find any hints in various mailing lists or google searches...
> 
> I have a new WinTV PVR-USB2 (of the 24xx flavor) and am trying to use 
> with with an Ubuntu Feisty system (kernel 2.6.20-16)
> 
> When I plug the device into the USB bus, dmesg indicates that it is 
> recognized, a bunch of modules are loaded, and /dev/video0 and 
> /dev/radio0 are created.  If I then use vlc from the command line ('vlc 
> pvr:/dev/video0:frequency=<XXXXXX>'), I am able to watch video right off 
> the device.  I assume this is coming from tuner 0 on the device?
> 
> My question is: how do i access the 2nd tuner?  If I wanted to run 2 VLC 
> windows watching 2 different channels, is it possible?  There is no 
> /dev/video1 device?  I presume that if I wanted to use mythtv or freevo 
> to access both tuners, it should be doable?
> 
> Thanks for any pointers,
> --Brett

Brett:

The PVR USB2 device only has a single tuner.

You're seeing two F-connectors on the device because one is for the FM 
radio while the other is for TV input.  But internally it's just a 
single tuner.  Sorry...

  -Mike


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