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

David Fishburn fishburn at ianywhere.com
Tue Jun 19 02:33:25 UTC 2007


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Marc Barrett
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 5:17 AM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: tv: Recording a VHS movie to MythTV?
> 
> 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.  


I frequently transfer stuff from my video camera into Myth, which is the
same thing.  Basically I am getting in put from my RCA jacks.

I followed some instructions from Mike:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/232857?search_string=chan
ge%20capture%20resolution;#232857

I setup a separate channel in the Myth backend.
I setup a manual recording for x hours.
When I am done, I go through it and mark the "commericials", in other words
the sections of the taping I don't want to keep.

Then I perform a lossless transcode (keeping it in mpeg2) (all just using
the frontend menus).

Then I either transcode to XVID or leave as is.

Works great.

HTH,
Dave



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