According to jonr, > Ricardo Kleemann wrote: > >Hi David, > > > > > >>>If I hooked up a VCR to save some tapes to disk (or even burn DVDs), how > >>>would I control that from mythtv? > >>> > >>> > >> > >>There isn't an easy one-button way of doing this. Sometimes it is just > >>easier to press play on the VCR and type 'cat /dev/video > video.mpg'. > >>What I did once was setup an input source on one of my capture cards > >>called vcr and setup a dummy source for it. > >> > > > > > >Is it possible to setup the VCR as a separate input source, and record from > >there? IOW perform a manual record off mythtv, and simply pressing play on > >the VCR? > > > >Ricardo > > Ricardo, > > Set your VCR up so that you can hit "Play" on the VCR and watch it > through "Live TV" in myth. Then all you have to do is set up a "Manual > Record" and hit "Play" on the VCR. All you really have to know is the > running time of the tape being recorded. I have done this for quite a > few old VHS tapes.
How do you do that? I want to do that too!
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