[mythtvnz] Recording from video tape

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 15:52:48 +1200
"Steve Hodge" <stevehodge@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/25/06, Criggie <criggie@criggie.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > Steve Hodge wrote:
> > > The most common suggestion on the mail lists seems to be to not use
> > > Myth for this sort of thing.
> >
> > Well my two tuner cards are in the mythbackend, and I'm not going to buy
> > another one for a relatively uncommon task like this.
> 
> I wasn't suggesting that. Just, you know, shutting down mythbackend
> and starting up some other software...
> 
> > And it appears to have worked perfectly so far.
> 
> Except for the issues due to not having a schedule (or having the
> wrong schedule), right? Going to the trouble of setting up a dummy
> channel seems to me to be the sort of thing that's necessary when
> you're using the wrong tool for the job.
> 
> Steve

Rubbish, myth is fine for the job! 

There are howtos for the set up in the mythtv-user mailing list archives, which as we all know are hosted at the same place as ours.

OTOH ssh plus 

cat /dev/video0 > mytape.mpeg

followed by ctrl-c when the tape is over (OK its a bit manual) will work fine.