[mythtv-users] recording channel from s-video

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 18 July 2003 07:15 am, Jeff Waters wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I had a wired thing happen last night. My daughter was on my pc watching
> some discovery kids show on xawtv which I can't tune in on mythtv due to
> it's a digital channel. So I tell xawtv to use s-video as the input and
> get picture and sound no problem.
>
> However when I turned off xawtv last night and went to bed I started up
> mythtv as normal and this morning when I got up every show I had
> recorded was from s-video? So instead of recording zoids off cartoon
> network the actual program was some kiddy show from discovery kids.
>
> Now I've no idea how it did that, so I was thinking that maybe there is
> a way to tell myth to record a show using the s-video input instead of
> tuning to a channel. That would be cool.
>
> Basically if I can edit some file to say s-video instead of television
> as the input would be awesome, however I searched through the
> mythconverg database and did not see this as an option.

So you missed the entire 4th section of the setup program?  All you need to do 
is assign a set of channels to the svideo input and set up an ir blaster to 
change channels on the cable box.

Isaac