[mythtv-users] Getting VCR Recordings Into MythTV/MythVideo
Cory Papenfuss
papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu
Wed Jan 12 14:56:42 EST 2005
> Oh, I agree it would be useful, but since you are going to personally
> be there for the recording (ie. folks were thinking of it as a "manaul
> recording now") a simple visit to the tuner status page of mythweb or
> mythtv will tell you that the tuners are free and for how long.
True. I've managed to do it as a manual recording by binding an
aux input to a "bogus" channel. It never quite worked the way I thought
it should, however. IIRC I couldn't watch that "channel" in livetv... I
could only set a manual recording and then watch it once it started. It
was quite a PITA.
> It's a hard choice actually. There is a push to make tools like
> MythTV "do everything" -- and that's particularly important when
> you put them in front of people who would find the suggestion of
> running a video recording program or catting the /dev/video0 as out
> of their experience. But no program can do everything, even all
> your a/v needs, and so people prioritize.
>
Notice I'm not whining that it doesn't do it... merely suggesting
that it would be nice. If I had the time (stupid Ph.D!), I might plink
away at it, but right now I don't. Everyone has a priority on what they
think is most important.
That's the blessing/curse of open-source. You want it to
everything. Fortunately, it's usually doable.
-Cory
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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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