[mythtv-users] Home movie copying and recording profiles insanity

[papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu]

	I thought about doing it that way, but I wanted mythtv to know that the 
card was in use and not try to record anything with it at the same time.  I 
also thought it would be easy... :)  

-Cory

 On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Coax wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is an option for you, but i thought i'd present it
> anyway.
> 
> I think it might be easier to just change your input on your pvr-350
> manually (with the test_ioctl command), and do 'cat < /dev/video0 >
> yourvid.mpg' and play your 8mm tapes through it at that point.. (If you
> want to test whether or not it is recording correctly, just run 'mplayer
> <file.mpg>' on it to check. (or, you could just 'cat file.mpg >
> /dev/video16' if you were at a UNIX prompt outside the X environment.)
> 
> I'd then set up a fake chanid in the database via the myth interface, and
> name the file you recorded similarly to what the naming convention in Myth
> is - and move it into the /myth/tv directory..  (chanid, start time, end
> time.nuv or whatever - I'm not staring at a myth box at the moment..)
> 
> Then, if you want to add it to myth, it should be pretty easy to do..
> pretty simple MySQL to add a show to the recorded shows table. table
> 'recorded' is what you want.  Make sure that when you do the insert, make
> sure you set the show to never auto expire..
> 
> Hope this helps, or is of use to you!
> 
> Chad
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  > 	Hello all.  I've experienced some odd behavior on my
> mythtv box and
> > it's driver (me) of late.  I'm trying to copy some old home movies on 8mm tape
> > onto DVD via my PVR-250 card.  For this, I figured I'd make a custom "channel"
> > on the composite input.  I'm not using any external tuner, so this is the first
> > time I'd set that up.
> > 	Basically, I'm a bit confused at how the "video source" gets bound to
> > tuner channels and/or different inputs.  I've run 'setup' to create an 'AUX'
> > video source, and added a bogus channel to it.  I don't see where to bind it to
> > the composite input, though, so if I change to that bogus channel (101 is what
> > I chose), it doesn't change.  I can manually hit 'c' and change it to
> > composite, but I would think that it would figure this out.  I suppose it's
> > somewhat similar to having more channels on an external tuner box (directv,
> > digital cable, etc).
> >
> > 	The other issue is with recording profiles.  I figured I'd make a
> > "DVD-compatible" profile set with 704x480, 352x480, and different bitrates to
> > record this stuff on.  My normal recording profiles are either 480x480
> > (DVD non-standard) or 640x480 (non-standard, but PC friendly with square
> > pixels).  Now that I created this new recording profile
> > (localhost.localdomain), it appears that the normal scheduler uses it for its
> > normal PVR-250 configuration.  I don't know what setting to change now, because
> > I'd like to have the scheduler use the previous "PVR-X50 profiles" for any TV
> > recordings, but have the opportunity to set a manual recording and use my
> > "DVD-friendly profiles" on composite in from the 8mm camcorder.
> >
> > 	Any thoughts?  I cannot figure how to delete the "DVD-friendly
> > profiles" now (not so good at hacking MySQL database directly).  This doesn't
> > seem like it should be that tough, but I'm probably not quite going about it
> > the right way.
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> > -Cory
> >
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