[mythtv-users] capturing VCR input (macrovision?)

[Cory Papenfuss]

> Have you tried to copy any macrovision-protected VHS tapes?  If so, does your 
> capture card generate all these jacked up video files as if you were doing a 
> VHS->VHS copy?
>
 	I don't know for sure, but IIRC some of the video capture chips 
(Like the philips one used in the PVR-250) can support macrovision 
detection.  I'm pretty sure it can be ignored by the chip, so most likely 
the driver does that.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss                                                        *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University                   *
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