On 4/21/05, Bob Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a MythTV setup with a PVR350 and everything works > for watching and recoding TV shows. > > I would like to hook the composite input to a VCR to record some > old video tapes, but I not sure how best to set it up. > > I don't want to mess up the current setup. > > Thanks for any suggestions.
Bob, One quick and dirty way would be to connect your VCR to the PVR350 when myth isn't running. You can select the correct composite input for your card using ivtvctl, and then from the command line, cat /dev/video0 > file.mpg. There are much more elegant ways of doing this (it's even been a feature request for MythTV itself) but this avoids changing anything in Myth. If your MythTV is using the composite input on the PVR350 for recordings, you could instead schedule a manual recording for as long as the tape you want to record, which will also give you an MPEG which you can then edit further if required. HTH, Nick ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: New Crystal Reports XI. Version 11 adds new functionality designed to reduce time involved in creating, integrating, and deploying reporting solutions. Free runtime info, new features, or free trial, at: http://www.businessobjects.com/devxi/728 _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
