[mythtv-users] switching to composite input kills backend

[Robert McNamara]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Robert M. Riches Jr. <
rm.riches at jacob21819.net> wrote:

> (New subscriber, so apologies if I'm out of order...)
>
> On Mageia 1, I got MythTV set up with a Hauppauge HVR-1950, model
> 1192.  The mageia package version number is
> mythtv-backend-0.24.1-20111019.0.1.mga1.  After a reading a bunch
> of documentation and Googling for additional answers, it records
> and views ATSC programs quite well.  Now, I'm trying to set up so
> I can use the composite (and S-Video) inputs to digitize some old
> VHS tapes.  Running mythtv-setup as root, I have this:
>
>    two capture cards:
>        V4L for baseband analog
>        DVB for ATSC
>
>    three sources:
>        antenna-digital with EIT-only grabber
>        composite with no grabber
>        s-video with no grabber
>
>    three input connections:
>        [ V4L : /dev/video0 ] (television) -> (None)
>        [ V4L : /dev/video0 ] (composite) -> composite
>        [ V4L : /dev/video0 ] (s-video) -> s-video
>        [ DVB : /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 ] (DVBInput) -> antenna-digital
>        (Starting channels for composite and s-video are 201 and
>        202, respectively.)
>


First things first, an HVR-1950 is an MPEG encoder, not a v4l capture card
type.  The node you are addressing (/dev/video0) will not function as a raw
framegrabber node, which is what you have it defined as.

Robert
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