[mythtv-users] Using mythtv and PVR-350 to capture from video camera

[R]

Mike, I got it working.

Following instructions in 2 of your postings:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/232857#232857
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/203993#203993

I did the following to get my camcorder output
into my PVR-350's S-Video:

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Shut down mythfrontend and mythbackend. Run mythtv-setup.

In "Video Sources", create a new video source (i.e. "VCR"
or "Digital Video Camera" or "External" or whatever--just
make sure you give it a name). For the grabber, select,
"No grabber." Select "Finish". Hit Escape to go back to
the menu.

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But since I am running mythbackend version: 0.19.20060121-2
there I cannot see a "No grabber" option so I selected
"DataDirect" as the grabber, for the moment.

Then in the Input Connections screen I assigned SVideo0
to the Video Source I created above, clicked on Finish
and hit Esc to exit.

There was no reason to run mythfilldatabase because I
will be replacing "DataDirect" in the grabber.

I exited mythtv-setup and moved on to mysql.

###  Get in mysql:
mysql  -u YOUR_MYSQL_ID_GOES_HERE  -p

###  Specify the database:
use    mythconverg;

###  Look and identify the sourceid:
select  *  from  videosource;

###  My sourceid was 2, so I used that to set the xmltvgrabber and
useeit fields:
UPDATE videosource   SET xmltvgrabber ='/bin/true',   useeit = 0
WHERE sourceid = 2;

###  Verify that the update was done:
select  *  from  videosource;



###  Just looking at my existing channel list:
select  *  from  channel;

###  Make a new (unique) channel for this new S-Video feed:
INSERT channel   SET   chanid = 2099,   channum = 99,   sourceid = 2,
 callsign = "Svideo",   name = "Svideo" ;

###  The new channel 99 should be in the list, probably at the bottom:
select  *  from  channel;

###  Get out of mysql:
quit


###  You could restart the backend.  I just did a reboot.

###  In any of my frontends, I go to channel 99 and there is my S-Video feed!