VCR passthrough

[agidius]

I read in an earlier post (that I cant seem to find now) that I could use the RCA inputs on the tuner card by adding another capture source and pointing it to the inputs on the card, then adding a "fake channel" and call it "VCR" or something like that.

I disconnected my VCR to install the GBPVR box, and want to hook it back up, but have run out of inputs on the TV (also I think the possibility of digitally storing tapes is cool, and also possibly transcoding them to my PSP) and want to be able to view the VCR through the GBPVR box.

here are my questions--

1-
is the above description on how to do it correct??

2-
will viewing the "fake channel" tie up the tuner card totally??
(ie. if I am watching a tape through it, can the tuner still record a show??)

3-
how could I (if possible) put a button on the main menu to immediatly tune to the "fake channel", instead of going to "live TV" and then going to the channel.

[sub]

I read in an earlier post (that I cant seem to find now) that I could use the RCA inputs on the tuner card by adding another capture source and pointing it to the inputs on the card, then adding a "fake channel" and call it "VCR" or something like that.

1-
is the above description on how to do it correct??

Yes.

2-
will viewing the "fake channel" tie up the tuner card totally??
(ie. if I am watching a tape through it, can the tuner still record a show??)

Yes it will tie the card up.

3-
how could I (if possible) put a button on the main menu to immediatly tune to the "fake channel", instead of going to "live TV" and then going to the channel.

This isnt possible.

[agidius]

would it be possible for the program to boot me off of watching a tape if it needs the tuner to record??

the button thing isnt a big deal

[sub]

would it be possible for the program to boot me off of watching a tape if it needs the tuner to record??

Yes it'll do that.

[agidius]

got it working today!!!!

[diesel9129]

I read in an earlier post (that I cant seem to find now) that I could use the RCA inputs on the tuner card by adding another capture source and pointing it to the inputs on the card, then adding a "fake channel" and call it "VCR" or something like that.

I disconnected my VCR to install the GBPVR box, and want to hook it back up, but have run out of inputs on the TV (also I think the possibility of digitally storing tapes is cool, and also possibly transcoding them to my PSP) and want to be able to view the VCR through the GBPVR box.

here are my questions--

1-
is the above description on how to do it correct??

2-
will viewing the "fake channel" tie up the tuner card totally??
(ie. if I am watching a tape through it, can the tuner still record a show??)

3-
how could I (if possible) put a button on the main menu to immediatly tune to the "fake channel", instead of going to "live TV" and then going to the channel.

I'm glad I was able to find this post. It seems easy enough, but I can't get the steps mentioned above to work on my PVR-500MCE. I've double and triple checked that I have the setup right but I'm not getting any video at all when I access LiveTv. Are there any special settings to be aware of with a PVR-500? Thanks in advance!

[sub]

It should work fine for you PVR500. What exactly happened when you tried?