[mythtv-users] Composite1?

[Tom Craddock]

Hi,

The question asked was how is it accessed, not how do you record from it.
RTFM DOES tell you how to access the other inputs on your card and answered
the original question.  Yours is a new and different question, not only how
to access it but record from the other inputs on the tuner.  The only way to
access an input and record from it is to set it up thru mythtsetup.  Once
its set up there, you can hit C and record from it with no issues.  Ive got
that exact setup on my machine w/digital cable (using S-Video instead of
Composite, but not a big difference) and it works beautifully.

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Schlomo Schapiro [mailto:ivtv at schlomo.schapiro.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 9:55 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Composite1?

Hi,

I am also fighting with this problem, here what I found out:

- switching inputs with C works well
- Defining a channel for the composite works also well

(I setup a second video source and connected it to the corresponding 
composite4 input on my pvr 250)

What doesn't work at all is recording from the composite input. If I 
record while having switched with C, it records from the tuner channel I 
was watching before.

If I tune to the composite input with as a normal channel, then I cannot 
record, nothing happens (a "QDateTime::fromString: Parameter out of range" 
error message is produced). I also managed once to get the channel defined 
so, that it is connected to some xmltv Programm, then I was able to record 
only a program as defined there (which is quite pointless for a camera or 
video tape).

What did work, was to define a manual recording. But this is not very 
practical for converting something from a camera or VCR.

Why can't the normal Record button not work without the channel having an 
associated programme information ?

And BTW, the GUI doesn't really allow to set an input that doesn't have a 
tuner associated at all. Seems to me like the whole topic of non-tuner 
input is not yet well enough developed in mythtv.

So the question of composite input is not a RTFM issue, there are some 
real problems there.

To the developers: Is there any improvemend planned for this issue ?

Regards,
Schlomo

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Tom Craddock wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I would suggest reading the documentation at mythtv.org, in particular the
> section on Using Mythtv.
> 
> Tom 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cuddles -- "Soft and furry,but I've got CLAWS!"
> [mailto:cuddles at flowerseatshit.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 7:14 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Composite1?
> 
> Ok folks, for my next question... How do I access composite1 on the 
> video card?
> 
> 

-- 
Regards,
Schlomo