[mythtv-users] Using mythtv and PVR-350 to capture from video camera
R
rawgarlic at gmail.com
Thu Jan 4 09:39:42 UTC 2007
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!
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