[mythtv-users] Camera as second "tuner"??

James S. White james at jameswhite.org
Tue Jul 29 18:28:41 EDT 2003


MythTV sees my USB (pwc) camera just fine. I just set it up as I would
a s-video input to a tv card (setting default input to webcam)

Whenever My PVR-250 was in use it would fall back to the webcam.

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On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Max wrote:

> While ability to add webcast streaming channels is nice, I do not think the
> USB drivers are the issue here.
>
> The drivers are standard V4L, and other V4L apps can connect to it just
> fine. Furthermore MythTV Setup sees the camera and can id the input (well
> input) of it as "camera" - the question is how to assign a "channel" to it?
>
> -M
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Johnson" <bjohnson at johnson-engineering.ca>
> To: <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Camera as second "tuner"??
>
>
> > If there are USB issues, providing a method to use a tcp/ip streaming feed
> as a
> > channel would do the trick
> >
> > The webcam could be put on another box with streaming software and a LAN
> connection
> > could be used to access it's picture
> >
> > Taking an ethernet feed as a channel input would also provide for internet
> TV (there
> > are some internet TV stations out there!)
> >
> > This would be a really great feature !!
> >
> >
> >
> > Oliver Wardell (odw199 at zepler.org) wrote:
> > >
> > >I too would be very interested in being able to do this. Mainly so I can
> > >use picture in picture to see when the pizza guy arrives ;-)
> > >
> > >On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 07:28, Max wrote:
> > >> How to set up a camera as a second tuner?
> > >>
> > >> For that matter, how to allow input via anything other than tuner?
> > >>
> > >> I have a PVR250 and a USB webcam, I was hoping to make work with myth.
> > >> PVR250 did not have any issues when it was the only device, but when i
> > >> connected the webcam I get nothing but black screen when I do watch
> > >> live TV. If I configure PVR250 first I get it working, but I cannot
> > >> switch to the webcam, not does PIP work.
> > >>
> > >> What is the right way to hook up a "source" that does not have TV
> > >> listings associated with it?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks
> > >>
> > >> -M
> > >>
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