[mythtv-users] Video Source with no grabber

[Bruce Markey]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> I've configured a video source with a single channel for use when 
> recording from a VCR or whatever.  I've noticed that mythfilldatabase is 
> being run for 14 days for the video source (as it never has any data).  

We used to be able to edit this field in mythtv-setup. Set the
grabber to "/bin/true" but I guess that means you need to:

update videosource set xmltvgrabber='/bin/true' where sourceid=3;

There should be a no grabber selection which would be even better
but no one has done it yet.

--  bjm