[mythtv-users] Captions with HD-PVR help

[Larry Kennedy]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Mike Rice <mikerice1969 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Larry Kennedy <lunchtimelarry at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Mike,
>>
>> Thanks for posting your progress on getting ccextractor to work.  I'm
>> going to try this with my HD-PVR and a spare PVR-150.  I have one quick
>> question after reading the Neufeld wiki
>> <https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Captions_with_HD-PVR>:
>>
>> Do I need to add the PVR-150 to mythtv as a tuner?
>>
>> These two statements on the wiki that seems to imply that the PVR-150 is
>> available as a mythtv tuner:
>>
>> *Also in mythtv-setup, under "Input Connections", on the second page for
>> the HD-PVR, create a new recording group for the HD-PVR, and add the
>> VBI-decoding hardware to that recording group. That ensures that the
>> backend will not try to schedule a recording on your VBI-decoding hardware
>> while you're using it to extract captions for the HD-PVR. Note that the
>> backend must be restarted for this recording group change to be noticed by
>> the scheduler.*
>>
>> and
>>
>> *The input number of the composite input on the VBI-extracting hardware.
>> In my case, that's '2'.*
>>
>>
>> Of course, I would never want mythtv to use the PVR-150 as an actual
>> tuner for content.  The comment above implies that the "VBI-decoding
>> hardware" could be used at other times, but the script prevents use while
>> the hardware is actively extracting captions...
>>
>
> If you are only using the PVR-150 for captions you wouldn't tell mythtv
> anything about it.  MythTV doesn't need to know anything about the PVR it
> only runs the scripts when an event occurs.
>
> I've been really happy with using my PVR-500 for captions.  Good luck.
>
> Mike,

Are you sure the finalize script that is posted as an alternate script is
correct?   It looks like the script is failing to copy the .srt file to the
proper storage directory using the mythtv filename convention.  Before I
start debugging this, have you already fixed the script somewhere?
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