| digipenguin |
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The easiest way is to use vlc. I originally tried to setup mythtv to record from a vcr on channel 3 but I eventually abandoned that idea in favor of vlc. Here are the steps that I used for a mythbuntu system. You'll probably need to change a few settings depending on your hardware, OS and region.
- install required packages
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sudo apt-get install ivtv-utils v4l-utils alsa-utils vlc
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list all frequency maps
write down the freq. map that corresponds to your region (us-bcast)
list all inputs
# Input : 0
# Name : Television
write down television input number (0 in the example above)
list all audio devices
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cat /proc/asound/pcm
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# 01-00: CX88 Digital : CX88 Digital : capture 1
write down the device number - remove extra zeros and replace the dash with a comma (1,0 in the example above)
disable mythtv (to re-enable use "start mythtv-backend")
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sudo stop mythtv-backend
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choose the television input (from step 5)
switch to the right frequency map and channel [61.250 MHz] (from step 3)
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ivtv-tune -tus-bcast -c3
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test the audio and video - press play on your vcr and make sure to hit the tv/vcr button (use the device number from step 7 for the input-slave)
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vlc v4l2:///dev/video0:width=640:height=480:fps=29.97 :input-slave="alsa://hw:1,0"
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capture and encode video as mpeg/ac3 - replace the dst path with a valid one
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vlc v4l2:///dev/video0:width=640:height=480:fps=29.97 :input-slave="alsa://hw:1,0" --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mpgv,acodec=a52,vb=3000,ab=256,venc=ffmpeg{keyint=80,hurry-up,vt=800000}}:standard{dst=/home/UserName/Desktop/test.mpg}'
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