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

Dave Topan myth at topanfamily.ca
Sun Jun 17 13:31:32 UTC 2007


The easist way is not through MythTV:

Run ivtvctl to change video import

cat /dev/videoX > file.mpg (And Control-C when done)

Then dump it in your videos directories and watch it with MythVideo


On Sat, 16 Jun 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.
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> 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.
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