[mythtv-users] DVR Capability

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 01:42:43PM -0400, Thom Paine wrote:
> I work at our local police service and our station was hit with
> lightning last week. It knocked out alot of our equipment including
> our DVR for the interview room.
> 
> I was thinking of building a mythbox that will allow me to record from
> a video camera.
> 
> One feature myth has is the integrated burn to dvd function. That is a
> nice feature.
> 
> Has anyone else attempted something like this before?
> 
> All I need to be able to do is create a manual recording with a time
> and date stamp, from a video source such as composite in, which I
> think I can do from a PVR 250 card.
> 
> I only need to be able to record this input, and then I would be able
> to sort it by time and date. Then I could pick an interview and record
> it to dvd with mythburn.

As I often do, let me recommend ZoneMinder, which hews more closely to
what I think you're trying to do.  You can probably do what you want
with Myth, but it's not really suited for the sort of "record
everything and let God sort it out" service I understand you to want to
put it to.

Cheers,
-- jra
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