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mercury.morris at gmail

Oct 11, 2004, 11:23 AM

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Schedule Recoding from PVR-350 S-Video In

First, Thanks to Isaac Richards for MythTV and Thanks to Jarod Wilson
for Fedora HOWTO.
And of course, thanks to all the mailing list folks. With help from
all of the above,
I have installed MythTV 0.16 and it works! What fun!

I have a PVR-350 to which are connected 1) a coax from the roof
antenna, and 2) the
video and audio outputs from a 4DTV satellite receiver. After
selecting Watch TV,
a simple tap of the 'c' key switches between the antenna and 4DTV.
Scheduling from
the program guide works, as does manually scheduling.

What I'd like help with is making the 4DTV the default selection when Manually
Scheduling recordings. Even though I select 4DTV to be the channel, the system
always records Channel 3 from the coax-roof antenna. It's as if the system
needs to tap the 'c' key, just before it starts recording the manually scheduled
program.

This MythTV system is intended to replace a VCR that is connected exactly the
same way - coax + 4DTV. The 4DTV receiver and VCR are programmed separately.
I set the 4DTV to tune in 'The Wire' on HBO, and the VCR to record for about
an hour at the same time HBO broadcasts 'The Wire'. Worked well for years.

The MythTV system is doing the job of the VCR, but doesn't select the
appropriate input from the PVR-350. Surely, someone else may want to
manually schedule recording from the PVR-350's S-Video/Composite video input.

How can this be done?

bluesguy at stny

Oct 11, 2004, 6:27 PM

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Re: Schedule Recoding from PVR-350 S-Video In [In reply to]

Mercury Morris wrote:

>This MythTV system is intended to replace a VCR that is connected exactly the
>same way - coax + 4DTV. The 4DTV receiver and VCR are programmed separately.
>I set the 4DTV to tune in 'The Wire' on HBO, and the VCR to record for about
>an hour at the same time HBO broadcasts 'The Wire'. Worked well for years.
>
>The MythTV system is doing the job of the VCR, but doesn't select the
>appropriate input from the PVR-350. Surely, someone else may want to
>manually schedule recording from the PVR-350's S-Video/Composite video input.
>
>
>
Did you bind the 4DTV provider to the composite input in Mythsetup? If
so, it should select the composite input.
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mercury.morris at gmail

Oct 12, 2004, 5:39 AM

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Re: Schedule Recoding from PVR-350 S-Video In [In reply to]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:27:43 -0400, Blues Guy <bluesguy [at] stny> wrote:
> Mercury Morris wrote:
>
> >This MythTV system is intended to replace a VCR that is connected exactly the
> >same way - coax + 4DTV. The 4DTV receiver and VCR are programmed separately.
> >I set the 4DTV to tune in 'The Wire' on HBO, and the VCR to record for about
> >an hour at the same time HBO broadcasts 'The Wire'. Worked well for years.
> >
> >The MythTV system is doing the job of the VCR, but doesn't select the
> >appropriate input from the PVR-350. Surely, someone else may want to
> >manually schedule recording from the PVR-350's S-Video/Composite video input.
> >
> Did you bind the 4DTV provider to the composite input in Mythsetup? If
> so, it should select the composite input.

Thanks for answering.

In mythtvsetup, I defined a new Video Source called Video_In.
And in Channel Editor, defined a channel called 4DTV with no
channel number.

Here are the current settings, as observed by running mythtvsetup:

Video Sources:
Antenna and Video_In

Input Connections:
Composite 0 - Antenna
Tuner 0 - Video_In
S-Video 0 - Video_In
all others - (None)

Channel Editor:
4DTV
Callsign: W4DTV
Video Source: Video_In

Does any of this information tell what the bindings are?

bluesguy at stny

Oct 12, 2004, 4:02 PM

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Re: Schedule Recoding from PVR-350 S-Video In [In reply to]

Mercury Morris wrote:

>On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:27:43 -0400, Blues Guy <bluesguy [at] stny> wrote:
>
>
>>Mercury Morris wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>This MythTV system is intended to replace a VCR that is connected exactly the
>>>same way - coax + 4DTV. The 4DTV receiver and VCR are programmed separately.
>>>I set the 4DTV to tune in 'The Wire' on HBO, and the VCR to record for about
>>>an hour at the same time HBO broadcasts 'The Wire'. Worked well for years.
>>>
>>>The MythTV system is doing the job of the VCR, but doesn't select the
>>>appropriate input from the PVR-350. Surely, someone else may want to
>>>manually schedule recording from the PVR-350's S-Video/Composite video input.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Did you bind the 4DTV provider to the composite input in Mythsetup? If
>>so, it should select the composite input.
>>
>>
>
>Thanks for answering.
>
>In mythtvsetup, I defined a new Video Source called Video_In.
>And in Channel Editor, defined a channel called 4DTV with no
>channel number.
>
>Here are the current settings, as observed by running mythtvsetup:
>
> Video Sources:
> Antenna and Video_In
>
> Input Connections:
> Composite 0 - Antenna
> Tuner 0 - Video_In
> S-Video 0 - Video_In
> all others - (None)
>
> Channel Editor:
> 4DTV
> Callsign: W4DTV
> Video Source: Video_In
>
>Does any of this information tell what the bindings are?
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
Since you cleared that up, my original premise is flawed, but seeing
what you have seems similar to other satellite setups. Is there no way
to remotely change the channel on the 4DTV satellite unit (e.g. IR
Remote, serial interface, etc.)? Most people use an IR Blaster or other
control to have Myth change the channel on the satellite box, and start
recording. That way it uses the program data for the satellite provider
and that entire channel linup is bound to the input on your capture card.

I don't have this kind of setup, so satellite people please feel free to
chime in :-)

Greg
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gregg at secondwave

Oct 27, 2004, 8:57 AM

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Re: Schedule Recoding from PVR-350 S-Video In [In reply to]

I have a 4dtv and subscribe to the guide. I schedule it to record using the
guide and then manually set the 4dtv receiver to turn to the channel using
the built in timer function. I have messed around with the ir blaser, but
can not get it to compile on my system.

-Gregg

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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:02:19 -0400
From: Blues Guy <bluesguy [at] stny>
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<mythtv-users [at] mythtv>
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Mercury Morris wrote:

>On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:27:43 -0400, Blues Guy <bluesguy [at] stny> wrote:
>
>
>>Mercury Morris wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>This MythTV system is intended to replace a VCR that is connected exactly
the
>>>same way - coax + 4DTV. The 4DTV receiver and VCR are programmed
separately.
>>>I set the 4DTV to tune in 'The Wire' on HBO, and the VCR to record for
about
>>>an hour at the same time HBO broadcasts 'The Wire'. Worked well for
years.
>>>
>>>The MythTV system is doing the job of the VCR, but doesn't select the
>>>appropriate input from the PVR-350. Surely, someone else may want to
>>>manually schedule recording from the PVR-350's S-Video/Composite video
input.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Did you bind the 4DTV provider to the composite input in Mythsetup? If
>>so, it should select the composite input.
>>
>>
>
>Thanks for answering.
>
>In mythtvsetup, I defined a new Video Source called Video_In.
>And in Channel Editor, defined a channel called 4DTV with no
>channel number.
>
>Here are the current settings, as observed by running mythtvsetup:
>
> Video Sources:
> Antenna and Video_In
>
> Input Connections:
> Composite 0 - Antenna
> Tuner 0 - Video_In
> S-Video 0 - Video_In
> all others - (None)
>
> Channel Editor:
> 4DTV
> Callsign: W4DTV
> Video Source: Video_In
>
>Does any of this information tell what the bindings are?
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
Since you cleared that up, my original premise is flawed, but seeing
what you have seems similar to other satellite setups. Is there no way
to remotely change the channel on the 4DTV satellite unit (e.g. IR
Remote, serial interface, etc.)? Most people use an IR Blaster or other
control to have Myth change the channel on the satellite box, and start
recording. That way it uses the program data for the satellite provider
and that entire channel linup is bound to the input on your capture card.

I don't have this kind of setup, so satellite people please feel free to
chime in :-)

Greg

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