Any way to detect good signal? I have seen a lot of software that will stop capture on BAD signal or snow but how about starting capture on good signal?
Anyone seen anything like this? Dave P -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Watkins Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 9:10 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users][OT] - How grab VHS tapes? On 07 Dec 2005 06:29:13 -0800, Jim Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 09:05 AM 12/7/2005, you wrote: > On 12/7/05, Alessandro Boggiano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > usually if I want watch a VHS,I can use the antenna cable between the > vcr and the tv (I know,the quality is bad),put channel 36 on my tv and > it works! > > I'd like to do the same thing with my mythtv system in order to recorder > the vhs tape: so I unplegged the antenna from the tv and plugged the vcr > as above. > > > Should work. I've done this with my VCR, setting myth to channel 3 in my > case. > Not sure what VCR picks channel 36 - does the VCR have a switch on the back > to > select which channel to use? (I think mine has a 3/4 switch). > Since it's an Italy email address, it's probably all PAL > > > Now the problem is that I can't find a valid channel/frequency with my > PVR-150: I use ivtv-0.4.0 and the program ptune-ui.pl (I hacked the > source to have a fine tune to 50) to set the channel. > But I can'f find a valid frequency! > > > I think you can use ivtvctl to manually pick an actual frequency, but I'm > surprised that ptune > didn't work without being hacked. Do you normally use the cable input on the > PVR, or the > composite/svideo? If you don't normally use the tuner, is it possible that > you have it set to the > wrong country frequency sets? (I am guessing that you aren't in the US based > on the channel-36-VCR, > since I've never heard of such a thing over here - VHF here only goes 2-13, > and if you are cable-ready, > chances are you don't need to use RF modulation on the antenna input) > > For a couple of secs I had a valid picture from the tape,but it disappared! > > > Keep in mind that that myth has a large delay, so if you are trying things > on the VCR, they take a long > time to show up on the screen (same with tuning channels on the PVR - when > you change the channel, > it has to propogate through the card AND through the ring-buffer. > Might be better to use the component or S-video inputs if possible I'd agree that that the S-Video output would be better, but if it's not available then you're stuck with composite. I ended up putting my PVR 350 into a windows machine and using the windows software that came with the card to do a channel scan. Then, the channel number that it found the VCR on goes into the frequency field on the second page of the mythtv channel setup. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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