I'm working on a Christmas project that will have me use my myth box to record some old family videos (on VHS tapes) to DVD. I've seen lots of messages on the list about recording shows to DVD, but since this is coming from a tape (and will be manually started & stopped), it seems like my best approach is to use ivtv's test_ioctl to set my PVR250 to DVD-compatible settings and then "cat /dev/video > file.mpg" . (I can then edit the file in LVE, avidemux, or something similar.) Involving myth seems like it would be more complicated than it needs to be, as I will require manual control over the recordings and can't take advantage of all the other things that Myth can do automatically.
However, I thought I'd first check here to see if anyone had done something similar or had any clever ideas on improving my approach. Any suggestions are welcome. -- Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Computer Engineer and Geek Fan of video games, anime, and the outdoors MythTV page: http://www.istop.com/~kyanos/ "Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to go to hell and making them happy to be on their way." - Lazarus Long
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