[mythtv-users] Camera as second "tuner"??

Max max-mythtv-users at lasevich.net
Tue Jul 29 17:39:55 EDT 2003


How do you configure it in setup (sources?)

How do you manually switch between tuners? I tried keys.txt binding, did not
work

-M
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James S. White" <james at jameswhite.org>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Camera as second "tuner"??


> MythTV sees my USB (pwc) camera just fine. I just set it up as I would
> a s-video input to a tv card (setting default input to webcam)
>
> Whenever My PVR-250 was in use it would fall back to the webcam.
>
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>
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Max wrote:
>
> > While ability to add webcast streaming channels is nice, I do not think
the
> > USB drivers are the issue here.
> >
> > The drivers are standard V4L, and other V4L apps can connect to it just
> > fine. Furthermore MythTV Setup sees the camera and can id the input
(well
> > input) of it as "camera" - the question is how to assign a "channel" to
it?
> >
> > -M
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brian Johnson" <bjohnson at johnson-engineering.ca>
> > To: <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:50 PM
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Camera as second "tuner"??
> >
> >
> > > If there are USB issues, providing a method to use a tcp/ip streaming
feed
> > as a
> > > channel would do the trick
> > >
> > > The webcam could be put on another box with streaming software and a
LAN
> > connection
> > > could be used to access it's picture
> > >
> > > Taking an ethernet feed as a channel input would also provide for
internet
> > TV (there
> > > are some internet TV stations out there!)
> > >
> > > This would be a really great feature !!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Oliver Wardell (odw199 at zepler.org) wrote:
> > > >
> > > >I too would be very interested in being able to do this. Mainly so I
can
> > > >use picture in picture to see when the pizza guy arrives ;-)
> > > >
> > > >On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 07:28, Max wrote:
> > > >> How to set up a camera as a second tuner?
> > > >>
> > > >> For that matter, how to allow input via anything other than tuner?
> > > >>
> > > >> I have a PVR250 and a USB webcam, I was hoping to make work with
myth.
> > > >> PVR250 did not have any issues when it was the only device, but
when i
> > > >> connected the webcam I get nothing but black screen when I do watch
> > > >> live TV. If I configure PVR250 first I get it working, but I cannot
> > > >> switch to the webcam, not does PIP work.
> > > >>
> > > >> What is the right way to hook up a "source" that does not have TV
> > > >> listings associated with it?
> > > >>
> > > >> Thanks
> > > >>
> > > >> -M
> > > >>
> > > >>
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