I've got my machine running flawlessly with the tuner input, but would like to occasionally record movies off of my VCR using the composite input. I can't figure out how to set the machine to record from the composite input. Is there an easy way in MythTV to switch inputs? If so, how do I do it?

I read a post saying that pressing the 'c' key should switch inputs, but my machine just says "Tuner 0" when I press the key. I re-ran mythtv-setup and added an input called "composite" on the Composite 0 input. I assume I don't have to run mythfilldatabase, as it isn't actually tuning in any channels, but I'm no expert... Any help would be apprechiated.

rerun mythtv-setup and make sure composite0 is listed as the default input..

you will also want to complete the xmltv section for the program info (you need this)

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Actually, how do you do this? I have been wondering how to set this up as well. From initial setup of the tuner, I gather you need to have some channels defined in order to do anything. But how do you assign program info to your composite input, since by definition, there is no program info?

I would guess (in setup):
- Add a source, but then, which grabber do you assign to it?
- Set a link between composite and the source you just defined

This is really unclear to me...

I wanted to do a similar thing with my PVR-350, but switching between tuner and SVideo input. What I did was kind of a hack, but it works for my purposes:

Added two menu options to the /usr/share/mythtv/tvmenu.xml file:


You may have to adjust the -p # to get the input you want. For SVideo it was between 5 and 7 so I just selected 'Watch TV' tried them all until I hit the one that that was displaying what I wanted. The composite inputs are 0-3 I believe. Again, this was a 350 so it may be different.

To use this, I just go down on the menu and select 'Select DVD Input', nothing will appear to happen, but then when you go to 'Watch TV' you will be watching the DVD input. When you're done, go down to 'Select TV input' and when you back to 'Watch TV', you'll be back on the tuner input. I'm not sure how this will interfere with scheduled recordings, or any other additional problems it may introduce, but it works for me .