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MythTV Hardware- Hauppauge USB Live-2

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== Adding to MythTV backend configuration ==== Adding to MythTV back-end configuration ==MythTV is designed to work with capture devices that have tuners.  Our device has no tuner so it has to be configured in an irregular way that is not as well supported by the MythTV devs.  First review pertinent information from their documentation.MythTV is designed to work with capture devices that have tuners.  [http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/140368 Our device has no tuner] so it has to be configured in an irregular way that is not as well supported by the MythTV devs.  First review pertinent information from their documentation.We also made a dummy or placeholder channel in the channel table so that the MythTV front-end has a channel it believes it is turning to when capturing from the USB Live-2.  This is a hack to deal with the fact that our device has no tuner.  The important fields are chanid, channum and sourceid.  You choose whatever unique channum you want.  The sourceid has to match that in videosouce table.  The chanid is a calculated field: (sourceid * 1000) + channum  We also made a dummy or placeholder channel in the channel table so that the MythTV front-end has a channel it believes it is turning to when capturing from the USB Live-2.  This is a hack to deal with the fact that our device has no tuner.  The important fields are chanid, channum and sourceid.  You choose whatever unique channum you want.  The sourceid has to match that in videosouce table.  [http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/44731 The chanid is a calculated field]: (sourceid * 1000) + channum  
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