[mythtv-users] Video Source with no grabber

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Feb 27 00:52:10 UTC 2006


On 02/26/2006 06:35 PM, Bruce Markey wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> I've configured a video source with a single channel for use when 
>> recording from a VCR or whatever.  I've noticed that mythfilldatabase is 
>> being run for 14 days for the video source (as it never has any data).  
>>     
> We used to be able to edit this field in mythtv-setup. Set the
> grabber to "/bin/true" but I guess that means you need to:
>
> update videosource set xmltvgrabber='/bin/true' where sourceid=3;
>
> There should be a no grabber selection which would be even better
> but no one has done it yet.
>   
Cool.  Thanks for the feedback.  I'll see if I can do up a patch.

Mike


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