[mythtv-users] Home movie copying and recording profiles insanity

[Coax]

I'm not sure if this is an option for you, but i thought i'd present it
anyway.

I think it might be easier to just change your input on your pvr-350
manually (with the test_ioctl command), and do 'cat < /dev/video0 >
yourvid.mpg' and play your 8mm tapes through it at that point.. (If you
want to test whether or not it is recording correctly, just run 'mplayer
<file.mpg>' on it to check. (or, you could just 'cat file.mpg >
/dev/video16' if you were at a UNIX prompt outside the X environment.)

I'd then set up a fake chanid in the database via the myth interface, and
name the file you recorded similarly to what the naming convention in Myth
is - and move it into the /myth/tv directory..  (chanid, start time, end
time.nuv or whatever - I'm not staring at a myth box at the moment..)

Then, if you want to add it to myth, it should be pretty easy to do..
pretty simple MySQL to add a show to the recorded shows table. table
'recorded' is what you want.  Make sure that when you do the insert, make
sure you set the show to never auto expire..

Hope this helps, or is of use to you!

Chad




 > 	Hello all.  I've experienced some odd behavior on my
mythtv box and
> it's driver (me) of late.  I'm trying to copy some old home movies on 8mm tape
> onto DVD via my PVR-250 card.  For this, I figured I'd make a custom "channel"
> on the composite input.  I'm not using any external tuner, so this is the first
> time I'd set that up.
> 	Basically, I'm a bit confused at how the "video source" gets bound to
> tuner channels and/or different inputs.  I've run 'setup' to create an 'AUX'
> video source, and added a bogus channel to it.  I don't see where to bind it to
> the composite input, though, so if I change to that bogus channel (101 is what
> I chose), it doesn't change.  I can manually hit 'c' and change it to
> composite, but I would think that it would figure this out.  I suppose it's
> somewhat similar to having more channels on an external tuner box (directv,
> digital cable, etc).
>
> 	The other issue is with recording profiles.  I figured I'd make a
> "DVD-compatible" profile set with 704x480, 352x480, and different bitrates to
> record this stuff on.  My normal recording profiles are either 480x480
> (DVD non-standard) or 640x480 (non-standard, but PC friendly with square
> pixels).  Now that I created this new recording profile
> (localhost.localdomain), it appears that the normal scheduler uses it for its
> normal PVR-250 configuration.  I don't know what setting to change now, because
> I'd like to have the scheduler use the previous "PVR-X50 profiles" for any TV
> recordings, but have the opportunity to set a manual recording and use my
> "DVD-friendly profiles" on composite in from the 8mm camcorder.
>
> 	Any thoughts?  I cannot figure how to delete the "DVD-friendly
> profiles" now (not so good at hacking MySQL database directly).  This doesn't
> seem like it should be that tough, but I'm probably not quite going about it
> the right way.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> -Cory
>
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