[mythtv-users] VHS Digitizing

[Gordon McCrae]

H P Ladds wrote:
> I'm using MythTV to Digitize home VHS tapes. Essentially, I've tricked
> MythTV into recording the VHS signal by setting it up as an input.
> This works well enough for my purposes, but VHSes over an hour in
> length are stored in hour long segments.
>
> I can splice the the segments together easily enough with a video
> editor, but it would be nice if some change in the MythtTV settings
> would eliminate storing of the VHSes in hour long segments. Any
> thoughts?
>
> Knoppmyth R5.5
> AMD 64 3500
> PVR 150 (x2)
> FX5200
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Why bother tricking MythTV?

Simply use v4l2-ctl to select the correct input etc., and then cat the
/dev/video0 device to a file for the required number of minutes.

This will give you a native MPG file straight from the card.

Cheers
Gordon