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

[Brett Granger]

Mike Isely wrote:
> 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
> 

"Doh!" he says, grinning sheepishly. :-)  I must have been really tired 
when I read the description and thought it had 2 tuners... I thought it 
was just an external version of the pvr500.  Oh well.  In that case, it 
"just works" -- thanks for the great work on the driver!

--Brett


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