[mythtv-users] Need help installing video capture card with no tuner.
Alen Edwards
allen.edwards at oldpaloalto.com
Sun Jul 6 00:07:19 UTC 2008
Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Jul 5, 2008, at 3:41 PM, allen edwards wrote:
>
>> 2) Video source. I want to record a VCR output.
>
> Why are you using MythTV for this capture device if all you want to do
> is play back from a VCR and capture the output to a file?
> Surely cat /dev/video > video.mpg is a much simpler way to accomplish
> this.
>
> MythTV assumes you want to record, well.. TV. It's even in the name. :)
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Well, I lied. I actually want to record shows off my Dish Networks STB.
However, I am going to set the channels manually (or with the timer in
the Dish STB) so I though describing it as a VCR would get the point
across that there were no channels. I guess I was wrong.
Maybe what you are saying is that one way or another Myth expects to be
setting the channels and there is no video input setting. If that is the
case, I would need to trick it some way.
Allen
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