[mythtv-users] directv and dish network

David George david at thegeorges.us
Wed Mar 16 23:02:47 UTC 2005


On 03/16/2005 05:46 PM, Ricardo Kleemann wrote:

>This is awesome, thanks. :-)
>
>A couple more questions... how can I control mythtv via a remote control
>instead of using keyboard?
>  
>
http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-8.html

>If I hooked up a VCR to save some tapes to disk (or even burn DVDs), how
>would I control that from mythtv?
>  
>
There isn't an easy one-button way of doing this.  Sometimes it is just 
easier to press play on the VCR and type 'cat /dev/video > video.mpg'.  
What I did once was setup an input source on one of my capture cards 
called vcr and setup a dummy source for it.

-- 
David

HDTV capable frontend I am working on (now with a picture)
  http://mythhd.info



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