[mythtv-users] capturing VCR input

Tony Godshall togo at of.net
Thu Mar 17 00:52:10 UTC 2005


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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