[mythtv-users] analog video camera and Mythtv?

Nick knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Wed Jan 25 11:03:44 UTC 2006


On 24/01/06, Roger Hanson <roger at rogerhanson.com> wrote:
>  Nick wrote:
>  On 18/01/06, Roger Hanson <roger at rogerhanson.com> wrote:
>
>
>  I have a KnoppMyth box (front and back end) with a PVR-350 card that
> runs great.
>
> I'd like to try connecting my Analog video camera to the PVR-350 card
> using the S-video port and the line-in port on the PVR-350 card.
>
> In mythtv-setup,
> I've added a video source called camera
> In the input connections, I chose S-video 0
>
> I go back to the frontend watch tv, press the C key on the keyboard and
> nothing happens. ( have the video camera turned on and playing a tape)
>
> Did I do something wrong?
>
>  Does it return you to the menu, or does it go back to the source that
> was playing?
>
> You will need to create a dummy channel for the S-Video camera source
> (called CAMERA or something) so that LiveTV can switch to it. It's
> likely this is stopping LiveTV from successfully switching to the
> S-Video input.
>
> Nick
>
>
>  I set up a dummy channel, can press the "C" button and it changes to the
> S-video port on the PVR-350.  I can see the video playing from my Camcorder
> on the TV!  I set it to record (made a 'manual' recording schedule, and it
> appeard to be recording, because I went back to the "watch recordings" part
> of the GUI and it was red on the top, showing it was recording).  The
> trouble is - when it was done, the recorded program didn't show up in the
> "recorded programs" part of the GUI.  I can't find where the file was
> recorded to - I did a search on the hard drive (recorded on 1/12/06)
>  find / | grep *20060112*  and it came up blank.....
>
>  Any ideas?

Check the mythbackend logfile - maybe there was a problem. Could it
have autoexpired? The recording should have been stored in your
regular recordings directory.

Nick


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