Ditto here (except I'm trying to record some old 8mm camcorder tapes onto DVD *in time for* christmas!).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.
I am in exactly the same situation. I have a suitcase full of family videos, and I plan to convert them to DVD. I have yet to come up with an efficient and elegant method.
The problem with just doing a cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg is that you'll have to set everything up manually (not a big deal). The bigger problem is that you'll have to make sure that mythtv doesn't try to use the card while you're recording with it.
What I ended up doing is making a fake channel in the channel lineup, and binding it to COMPOSITE in on the card. Although there's no programming information in it, I can schedule a manual recording. If there's 2 hours of footage to tape, I'd set it up to record 2:05 manually, hit play, and go do something else for awhile.
The biggest problem that I've had with doing this is recording profiles. I suspect I'm still a bit ignorant on how they work, but adding another set of recording profiles certainly didn't do what I was expecting. Also, I haven't found how to choose a recording profile in Manual scheduling, so I have to temporarily make the 'Default' profile with the settings I want (704x480 @ 4500/6000 right now).
Certainly not elegant, but it does work, allows mythtv to set up all the settings so I know they're the same for each tape, and it won't collide with any other recordings scheduled.
-Cory
************************************************************************* * Cory Papenfuss * * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * *************************************************************************
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