[mythtv-users] Recording a VHS movie to MythTV?

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Sat Jun 16 12:24:19 UTC 2007


Marc Barrett wrote:
> I have a pretty typical setup: two Hauppauge cards (150 and 350) with a cable line going to both cards, so I'm using the tuners.  Everything works great.
> 
> I would like to occasionally copy a VHS movie to MythTV, recording it like a TV show.  What I'd like to do is plug a VCR into one of the component inputs of either card, so I don't have to touch the existing setup.  Right now, the only way I can think of to do it is to go back into mythtv-setup and add an input.  But then there is also the problem of telling MythTV exactly when to start and stop "recording", so I don't end up with "dead air" at the beginning and end when I'm setting things up, and also how to title the program in MythTV.  
> 
> I'm hoping someone has already thought of this and written a little MythTV utility to record video off of a card's alternative input, without having to mess with the setup.  
> 
There may well be some wiki stuff about this, but here's a thread that's 
relevant.  It requires some 'messing with setup'.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/239780

John P


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