[mythtv-users] Recording from Svideo or composite inputs

[Brian Wood]

On May 1, 2006, at 4:07 AM, Adriaan van Nijendaal wrote:

> Hi Greg
>
> I found that same thread but never got to the point where it would
> work - mythfrontend refuses to show a "tuner"input that has a default
> channel that cannot be tuned to. I ended up making a fake EPG,
> deciding to ignore the programs. My test-run failed, even though I
> could see the output of my VCR / satellite receiver on Myth. Probably
> a problem of the slave backend: I use a Hauppauge PVR350 in my
> frontend machine and I wanted to setup a slave backend for this.
>
> My next uncertainty was: How to hook it up?
>
> My '350 came with a 9-pin micro-DIN to SCART (or Peritel). After a lot
> of trying, that input (on the 9-pin port) is called Composite-4 (!).
> So, be warned - if you do find a better way, the input could be called
> Composite-4.
>
> And, should you find a better way - I'd be interested.
>
> Adriaan
>
> On Mon, 1 May 2006 swan_1_ at ssl-mail.com wrote:
>
>> Is there any way to record from Svideo (or composite) inputs on
>> a tuner card?  If so, how do you set it up?  The only other thread
>> on this topic seems to point to a post from 2003 that involved hand
>> editing the mysql data base.  There must be a nicer way then that.
>> Seems
>> like the functionality was taken out around .12 or so.
>>
>> Thanks in advance, Greg


I may have missed something here, but I set it up to record the S- 
Video output of my satellite receiver thusly:

Create a video source for Dish Network with DataDirect

Associate the "S-Video" input of a PVR-150 with that source

Put the name of the channel-changing script into the card setup in  
Mythtvsetup.

(Initially I didn't have an IR blaster and had to set the channel  
manually. Since Myth expects some sort of changer program that will  
return success, I just put "/bin/true" into setup as the channel  
changer script, I later changed this to a "real" script).

So am I missing something ? This seemed fairly straightforward.