[mythtv-users] Getting VCR Recordings Into MythTV/MythVideo

[John Johnson]

Sounds like a good job for a plugin MythDub or the like.

Regards,
   JJ

On 12-Jan-2005, at 14:56, Cory Papenfuss wrote:

>> Oh, I agree it would be useful, but since you are going to personally
>> be there for the recording (ie. folks were thinking of it as a "manaul
>> recording now") a simple visit to the tuner status page of mythweb or
>> mythtv will tell you that the tuners are free and for how long.
> 	True.  I've managed to do it as a manual recording by binding an aux  
> input to a "bogus" channel.  It never quite worked the way I thought  
> it should, however.  IIRC I couldn't watch that "channel" in livetv...  
> I could only set a manual recording and then watch it once it started.  
>  It was quite a PITA.
>
>
>> It's a hard choice actually.  There is a push to make tools like
>> MythTV "do everything" -- and that's particularly important when
>> you put them in front of people who would find the suggestion of
>> running a video recording program or catting the /dev/video0 as out
>> of their experience.  But no program can do everything, even all
>> your a/v needs, and so people prioritize.
>>
> 	Notice I'm not whining that it doesn't do it... merely suggesting  
> that it would be nice.  If I had the time (stupid Ph.D!), I might  
> plink away at it, but right now I don't.  Everyone has a priority on  
> what they think is most important.
>
> 	That's the blessing/curse of open-source.  You want it to everything.  
>  Fortunately, it's usually doable.
>
> -Cory
>
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