On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 19:11 -0500, Andy Walls wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 14:46 -0800, Tony Ross wrote:
> > Hello, we'd like to use the S-video input to get the best image quality
> > from the VHS player into the Hauppauge PVR-500MCE. Apparently we need
> > the RCA audio inputs as well, but I would appreciate some help in
> > understanding how to combine the S-video and audio into a usable file
> > using MythTV or any other software.
> > 
> > I'm not even sure what device is processing the audio stream; is
> > it /dev/video24?
>
> $ v4l2-ctl --help
> 
> $ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --list-inputs
> ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMINPUT
...
>       Input   : 1
>       Name    : S-Video 1
>       Type    : 0x00000002
>       Audioset: 0x00000007
>       Tuner   : 0x00000000
>       Standard: 0x0000000000FFFFFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM )
>       Status  : 0
> [....]
> $ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --set-input 1
> Video input set to 1 (S-Video 1)
> 
> (That will also set the audio inputs to Line-In 1 audio.)

Wonderful, thank you; it works as desired with cat and mplayer. Now if I
could just get MythTV to recognize that video input all would be well,
but I suspect it's more of an operator issue. <g>


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