[mythtv-users] Temporary Firewire Workaround?
Bryan Mayland
bmayland at leoninedev.com
Thu Apr 26 19:58:23 UTC 2007
David Frascone wrote:
> My PVR-500 has video inputs. . . can I use those to capture? Can they
> capture at the same time as the tuner? (obviously SD only)
>
> I could set a prog to change the channels via firewire, and just capture
> via svideo for now.
>
I actually have one of my cards set up like this. Yes you can use
the a Svideo input into the PVR-500 from the cablebox to record in
myth. I have PVR-150 which only has one input, but it can only be used
for either the tuner *or* the svideo (because there is only one encoder
chip). If a 500 has 2 separate sets of inputs, I would assume that you
could use one of the tuners and still have the encoder free to use on
video in.
I just changed the capture card definition to go off SVideo 1
instead of Tuner 1, then used an external tuner command (the firewire
6200ch from the contrib/channel_changers directory).
Works like a charm until I can fix my firewire problem (which is a
lack of PMT and PAT in the stream that comes from the box).
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