On 12/7/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alessandro Boggiano</b> <<a href="mailto:boggiano@libero.it">boggiano@libero.it</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br>usually if I want watch a VHS,I can use the antenna cable between the<br>vcr and the tv (I know,the quality is bad),put channel 36 on my tv and<br>it works!<br><br>I'd like to do the same thing with my mythtv system in order to recorder
<br>the vhs tape: so I unplegged the antenna from the tv and plugged the vcr<br>as above.</blockquote><div><br>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).<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Now the problem is that I can't find a valid channel/frequency with my
<br>PVR-150: I use ivtv-0.4.0 and the program ptune-ui.pl (I hacked the<br>source to have a fine tune to 50) to set the channel.<br>But I can'f find a valid frequency!</blockquote><div><br>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></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
For a couple of secs I had a valid picture from the tape,but it disappared!<br></blockquote></div><br>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.<br><br> - Jeff<br>