Input Connections

The Input Connections section allow you to associate a Video Source with a Capture Card. Essentially, this is where you tell Mythbuntu to look for a particular show on a certain channel on a given card.

For example, if Mythbuntu is going to record a Buffy The Vampire Slayer rerun (or you could just watch whatever episode you like from the video server) and it knows Buffy is on Cable, channel 38, it will look to see which capture cards are connected to the Cable Video Source and then pick one. It will tune the card to channel 38 and its in business.

You can only associate one Video Source with each Capture Card, although some Capture Cards can have multiple tuners and/or can record multiple video streams at one time.

     Display Name: (must supply a name - used to name source when viewing)
     Video source: (Cable, Cable-HD, Antenna, Satellite, etc.)
     Starting channel: (pick one that makes sense)

The second page of this section can be left pretty much at the defaults unless you are setting up a connection that can record multiple sources (see Recording HDTV And Analog TV Using The pcHDTV Cards, below, for example).

If this is your first time through and you haven't set up channels on the Video Source (e.g. you didn't pick a listings source), you can have setup scan the associated capture card to see what's out there. This works for both NTSC and HDTV inputs but the amount of information filled in for NTSC inputs is minimal. You'll probably want to use the Channel Editor (see below) to fill in additional info, disallow bogus channels, etc., once you've done this scan. This option is invoked by clicking "Scan for channels".