[mythtv-users] Capturing legacy VHS tapes

[Trevor Kramer]

Is it possible to setup mythtv to capture mpeg2 from the ConvertX?  I  
don't see that option in the setup program.

Trevor

On Oct 18, 2005, at 9:28 PM, Steve Hodge wrote:

> On 10/19/05, Nathan Lutchansky <lutchann-mythtvusers at litech.org>  
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:16:49PM -0200, Manuel Lemos wrote:
>>
>>> At last I managed to make Plextor ConvertX M402U to work under SuSE
>>> Linux 9.3 and MythTV to see the input video.
>>>
>>
>> MythTV doesn't support MPEG2 on the ConvertX.  What you really  
>> want is a
>> tool that can capture from the ConvertX and output an MPEG2 program
>> stream suitable for feeding to dvdauthor, and I don't think such a  
>> thing
>> exists yet.  Maybe you could take the output from "gorecord -format
>> mpeg2-dvd" and process it with ffmpeg, but I've not tried this.  - 
>> Nathan
>>
>
> Unless I'm misunderstanding, Manuel is saying he has the card working
> with MPEG2 and MythTV. He doesn't need help on getting the card to
> work. What he wants to know is the best way within MythTV to record
> something from a VHS tape - i.e. something that doesn't have an epg
> entry. I'm curious myself. I guess you could create a manual schedule,
> but is there an easier way?
>
> Regards,
> Steve
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