[mythtv-users] Getting VCR Recordings Into MythTV/MythVideo

[Cory Papenfuss]

> Oh, I agree it would be useful, but since you are going to personally
> be there for the recording (ie. folks were thinking of it as a "manaul
> recording now") a simple visit to the tuner status page of mythweb or
> mythtv will tell you that the tuners are free and for how long.
 	True.  I've managed to do it as a manual recording by binding an 
aux input to a "bogus" channel.  It never quite worked the way I thought 
it should, however.  IIRC I couldn't watch that "channel" in livetv... I 
could only set a manual recording and then watch it once it started.  It 
was quite a PITA.


> It's a hard choice actually.  There is a push to make tools like
> MythTV "do everything" -- and that's particularly important when
> you put them in front of people who would find the suggestion of
> running a video recording program or catting the /dev/video0 as out
> of their experience.  But no program can do everything, even all
> your a/v needs, and so people prioritize.
>
 	Notice I'm not whining that it doesn't do it... merely suggesting 
that it would be nice.  If I had the time (stupid Ph.D!), I might plink 
away at it, but right now I don't.  Everyone has a priority on what they 
think is most important.

 	That's the blessing/curse of open-source.  You want it to 
everything.  Fortunately, it's usually doable.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss							*
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 			*
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