[mythtv-users] On PVR250 works, now an input question

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 06:33:32PM -0700, Bruce Markey wrote:
> There is also an option in Setup->TV Settings->Recording
> Priorities->General called "Reschedule Higher Priorities" that
> you probably want to use. Say you have basic and digital on
> card 1 and basic only on card 2. What if you have a basic show
> with a priority of 6 and a digital show with priority 3? The
> scheduler would normally give the higher priority to the show
> with 6 and the digital show can't record on the second card so
> it's SOL. This option says it's okay to move a higher priority
> show as long as it still gets recorded and allows something
> else to record. With this checked, the digital shows with 3 would
> get the S-Video card 1 and the basic show with 6 would get moved
> to card 2. Both record, nobody gets hurt =).

Nicely put.  :-)

I have a vaguely related question: it would appear that there is no way
to just record random video off those video inputs, that is, to ingest
old programs from tape. It *seems* as if, to be permitted to change
Input Connections on the tuner card you're watching, you have to have
defined a Video Source for the input in question... but there doesn't
seem to be any way to do that without associating the Input with a
Video Source... and there's no generic "Live Video" source.

Can I hack one into the Video Sources table without breaking anything,
now that I've figured out how to *get* into those tables?  :-)

It seems this shouldn't be a *really* uncommon need; perhaps Live Video
would be a good thing to add as a default Video Source.

Cheers,
-- jra
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