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At 09:05 AM 12/7/2005, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On 12/7/05, <b>Alessandro
Boggiano</b>
<<a href="mailto:boggiano@libero.it">boggiano@libero.it</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<dd>Hi all,<br>
<dd>usually if I want watch a VHS,I can use the antenna cable between
the<br>
<dd>vcr and the tv (I know,the quality is bad),put channel 36 on my tv
and<br>
<dd>it works!<br><br>
<dd>I'd like to do the same thing with my mythtv system in order to
recorder <br>
<dd>the vhs tape: so I unplegged the antenna from the tv and plugged the
vcr<br>
<dd>as above.<br><br>
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Should work. I've done this with my VCR, setting myth to channel 3 in my
case.<br>
Not sure what VCR picks channel 36 - does the VCR have a switch on the
back to <br>
select which channel to use? (I think mine has a 3/4
switch).</blockquote><br>
Since it's an Italy email address, it's probably all PAL<br><br>
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<dd>Now the problem is that I can't find a valid channel/frequency with
my <br>
<dd>PVR-150: I use ivtv-0.4.0 and the program ptune-ui.pl (I hacked
the<br>
<dd>source to have a fine tune to 50) to set the channel.<br>
<dd>But I can'f find a valid frequency!<br><br>
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I think you can use ivtvctl to manually pick an actual frequency, but I'm
surprised that ptune <br>
didn't work without being hacked. Do you normally use the cable input on
the PVR, or the<br>
composite/svideo? If you don't normally use the tuner, is it possible
that you have it set to the<br>
wrong country frequency sets? (I am guessing that you aren't in the US
based on the channel-36-VCR, <br>
since I've never heard of such a thing over here - VHF here only goes
2-13, and if you are cable-ready,<br>
chances are you don't need to use RF modulation on the antenna
input)<br><br>
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<dd>For a couple of secs I had a valid picture from the tape,but it
disappared!<br><br>
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Keep in mind that that myth has a large delay, so if you are trying
things on the VCR, they take a long<br>
time to show up on the screen (same with tuning channels on the PVR -
when you change the channel, <br>
it has to propogate through the card AND through the
ring-buffer.</blockquote><br>
Might be better to use the component or S-video inputs if
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