[mythtv-users] recording previously recorded programs

Rodney D. Myers rdmyers.42 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 28 06:04:44 UTC 2006


On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:54:45 -0600
Kichigai Mentat <kichigai at comcast.net> wrote:

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> On Mar 27, 2006, at 16.48, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
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> > On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:33:36 -0500
> > "Brad Benson" <bbenso1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 3/27/06, Rodney D. Myers <rdmyers.42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I have a Dish PVR, which has a few recorded programs on it.
> >>>
> >>> Right now I'm struggling to get the Dish recordings recorded onto  
> >>> the
> >>> Myth box. What I'm currently doing, very poorly, is get to a channel
> >>> that has a 1.5 hour program, and try to get the mythtv box recording
> >>> while I quickly switch back to the Dish pvr, and get the program  
> >>> I want
> >>> started.
> >>>
> >>> The problem with this setup, sometimes I only get a few minutes of
> >>> recording or none at all.
> >>>
> >>> Are there other ways to accomplish this?
> >>
> >>
> >> A Manual Recording should be exactly what you're looking for.   
> >> When you set
> >> up a manual recording you tell Myth what time to start, what  
> >> channel to tune
> >> to, and how long to record.  In your case channel won't matter  
> >> much, but you
> >> could set the start time to about a minute from now, set the  
> >> recording
> >> length to however long your show is (plus a few minutes to be sure  
> >> you get
> >> everything recorded), then switch to your dish PVR and highlight  
> >> the program
> >> you want to record.  Then switch back to Myth and wait on the Watch
> >> Recordings screen until you see your manual recording start.  When  
> >> you see
> >> that, just hit enter on your Dish remote to start the program you had
> >> highlighted.  Myth should then happily record for however long you  
> >> told it
> >> to.
> >>
> >> HTH,
> >> Brad Benson
> >
> > Must have missed that option. Will look harder tomorrow.
> 
> You needn't look that hard. Just pull up MythWeb, the option is in  
> the header. Hope that helps you out! =)
> 

Up until today, I had not used the web interface. As soon as I figured
out it was there, as you said, it's in the header.

Thanks

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