On Dec 7, 2005, at 6:52 AM, Alessandro Boggiano wrote:

> Hi all,
> usually if I want watch a VHS,I can use the antenna cable between the
> vcr and the tv (I know,the quality is bad),put channel 36 on my tv and
> it works!
>
> I'd like to do the same thing with my htpc system in order to recorder
> the vhs tape: so I unplegged the antenna from the tv and plugged  
> the vcr
> as above.
>
> Now the problem is tha,in this case,I can't find a valid
> channel/frequency with my PVR-150: I use ivtv-0.4.0 and the program
> ptune-ui.pl (I hacked the source to have a fine tune to 50) to set the
> channel.
> But I can'f find a valid frequency!
>
> For a couple of secs I had a valid picture from the tape,but it  
> disappared!
>
> Of course,the card works very well with the antenna!
>

I don't see why you would have a problem, if the card works with your  
regular antenna, it should work with a coax from your VCR.  So, you  
know the channel you tune your tv to for the vcr and you set that in  
ptune and you see nothing?  Is the VCR the same format as your normal  
antenna (NTSC, PAL, etc)?  Does your VCR require you to hit a VCR/TV  
button on it before it outputs over coax?

The only possible problem I see is that the output from the VCR is so  
amazingly poor that the PVR doesn't lock onto it.  I find this hard  
to believe would happen.

Keith C

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