If your DVBViewer setup has more than one tuner card, you can create as many network recorders as you do have tuner cards.
Though you must carefully select the channels for each network recorder you will create.
DVBViewer does have a single channel list. This list is created when you scan for channel. For instance in DVBViewer you have three tuners:
- Two DVB-T tuners connected to the same antenna
- One DVB-S tuner
You'll usually make (only) one channel scan for the DVB-T tuners and one channel scan for the DVB-S tuner. DVBViewer know that it can tune the terrestrial channel only on the DVB-T tuners and not on the DVB-S tuner.
However if you have two DVB-S tuners connected to a different dish, then you'll have to create channel groups in DVBViewer to specifically restrict channels from those group to be tuned on a tuner that doesn't include a group.
So when you create the network recorder you have to think about the tuners it will (or should) use and only select the channels that this tuner will be able to tune (same group / same type).
In our former example (two DVB-T and one DVB-S), you can create:
- one DVB-T recorder, selecting all terrestrial channels
- another DVB-T recorder, selecting all terestrial channels. Be careful to assign to these channels the same "SageTV channel number" as for the previous DVB-T recorder (otherwise SageTV will think that those channels are not the same and will present them both in the EPG)
- one DVB-S recorder, selecting all satellite channels.
When tuners are sharing a channel, that is the same channel is broadcasted on more than one tuners even if these tuners are not receiving the same feed (Aerial / Cable / Satellite). You should use for those shared channels the same SageTV channel number. This way SageTV will know that this is the same channel and will be able to choose one of the recorder to tune it, based on tuner availability (as a consequence you are maximizing recording conflict resolution).