On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 15:07 -0800, Peter Hollenbeck wrote: > If the PVR-500MCE is like the PVR-250 it has a 1/8" audio input jack.
The PVR-500 thankfully doesn't have such a connection, as the RCA audio inputs are more easily dealt with. I have a composite RCA cable from the VHS player to the Hauppauge card and just unplug the yellow video and use an s-video cable for input to the card, hence the nature of my original question. Thank you Andy for the simple and elegant solution. > I have been trying for many days to capture analog video from a VCR > using a PVR-250 and any software I can find, on Linux or Windows. (VLC > and mencoder on Linux). The only thing that has worked so far is > Hauppauge WinTV v6 on Windows. Can't make anything work on Linux. > Please post your results for those of us struggling I've been using the ivtv software/firmware to capture the /dev/video[01] output to hard disk on a Linux CentOS 5.4 machine, and am using qdvdauthor to create the DVDs with menus etc. and am quite happy with the results. In order to assist with the start/stop of the recording and positioning of the tape, I need to watch the video stream while it's being saved to disk however, and couldn't figure out how to do that with either mplayer or cat, so I am trying to use MythTV and am meeting with some some success there using the composite video input, but have yet to accomplish the s-video input. MythTV not a trivial task for me to either understand or implement, and your use of the term "struggling" is an understatement in my case. The gui is incredibly non-intuitive, and even after many days of struggling I still have difficulty navigating and understanding the structure, which seems overly complicated for my very simple need of watching the video stream at the same time as it's being recorded to disk. If anyone has a better solution for watching the /dev/video[01] stream while it's being saved to disk I would be very grateful to hear from you, even though it's somewhat off-topic in the ivtv-users list. _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
