[mythtv-users] analog video camera and Mythtv?

Roger Hanson roger at rogerhanson.com
Wed Jan 25 15:25:24 UTC 2006


David Watkins wrote:

>>trouble is - when it was done, the recorded program didn't show up in the
>>"recorded programs" part of the GUI.  I can't find where the file was
>>recorded to - I did a search on the hard drive (recorded on 1/12/06)
>>find / | grep *20060112*  and it came up blank.....
>>    
>>
>
>Does grep work with wildcards?  I'd have done:
>
>find / -name "*20060112*" -print
>
>The directory for recordings in specified during mythtvsetup (the
>backend setup)  I think by default it's called /store, but that
>probably depends what package you installed from.
>
>If your file did get recorded, but isn't showing up, then that's
>probably something to do with recording groups.
>
>Manual recording with mythtv is a bit of a palaver.  You might find
>the following command easier.  It's what I use for recording from my
>VCR, using my PVR 350.
>
>dd if=/dev/video0 of=~/myfile.mpg bs=64k
>
>
>just CTRL-C when you've finished.
>
>  
>
When I used your command, it recorded live TV, not from the s-video 
connector (where my camera is connected to)

I'm sure I need to use a different command, but don't know what that'd be.
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