Using MBP as a DVD recorder transfering from an HDD recorder ?

I have a television and want to buy an HDD recorder.
but i do not want to buy a dvd recorder also as i
have this macbook pro. If i record a programme that i
want to keep forever.... Is it possible to move the
programme from the HDD recorder to the MBP so i can
then dump the programme to DVD??????
You can connect the composite video and analog audio out to a EYE TV 250 which has a cable that connects to its little mini USB port for this very purpose, then record to MPEG-2 using the hardware encoder built into the device. Since it also has a tuner you can record TV directly using the EYE TV as well. It is a PVR like you have basically.
A DVD recorder might be similarly priced, maybe even less . I use one with DVD and HD to record from the line out on my PVR but I have the EYE TV 250 as well.
What you can't do is input composite TV into the MacBook if that's your idea.

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It's definitely possible, but you're roughly in the same position as a user whose camcorder has a HD or a DVD... I'm guessing that your DVD isn't "finished" in the sense that your recorder could continue to add content to that disk. A couple options:
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- figure out what it takes to finish a DVD with your Sony recorder so that the DVD can play on any player. This gives you .VOB files that you can convert to mpeg-2 content that you can uncompress into DV Stream format (.dv) and edit.
- play the video on the HDD recorder and send the output signal (I assume it's analog) through a digital converter to your Mac. It will come in as an editable .dv file.
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Hello,
I just recreated an old BW statistics report in the new 7.0 version and this on multicube 0TCT_MC01.
In the old report (BW 3.5) there was a difference between:
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I red the following paper on SDN, titled: 'SAP NetWeaver BI Administration Cockpit Technical Content BI Statistics'.
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Now my question is how can I replace/define 0TCTDBTRA in the new report. I really need this key-figure in a report on the 0TCT_MC01 multicube.
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Kind regards,
lex

I posted the issue with another user but from this moment I will check it with my user.
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lex

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mi … w_hardware
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Alright, so, what is my actual problem? Well, I have the feeling that permissions for some of the files copied (or installed with the packages) might be off. Or, maybe it's the permissions of my user account. This is been made especially clear when I've tried to use cabal to install xmobar from scratch to include extra plugins that I used with my configuration. Here's the example:
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Last edited by Senk (2012-07-20 21:28:20)

boast wrote:
For future reference, I just did this last week and it was just:
1. Boot into live cd
2. Mount both drives
3. format ssd to ext4
4. use cp -a to copy everything from the hdd to the ssd
5. setup grub with the ssd
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Now the thing is, it seems you may have done that rsync without preserving the owner/permissions and stuff. But you're saying you haven't wiped your old hdd yet right?
Yeah, I've still got it. By everything, do you literally mean from the root directory (not /root/ but /)? Wouldn't that cause a lot of issues? If not, I'm willing to give it a shot. I'll just have to remember to update fstab again.
lemons wrote:I'm not sure if this would work but could creating the same users on the new hard drive possibly work?
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sci_id,
blg_cl_id,
cl_id
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( SELECT acct_id,
acct_seq_no,
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hdqtrs_duns_no,
us_ultmt_duns_no,
sci_id,
blg_cl_id,
cl_id
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AND csb.acct_seq_no = temp.acct_seq_no
AND rownum < 2
WHERE
EXISTS
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AND csb.acct_seq_no = temp1.acct_seq_no
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Thanks a lot david and rob for sharing the info.
Please find the details
SQL> EXPLAIN PLAN FOR
UPDATE csban_2 csb
SET (
duns_no,
hdqtrs_duns_no,
us_ultmt_duns_no,
sci_id,
blg_cl_id,
cl_id
) =
( SELECT duns_no,
hdqtrs_duns_no,
us_ultmt_duns_no,
sci_id,
blg_cl_id,
cl_id
FROM csban_abi_temp temp
WHERE csb.acct_id = temp.acct_id
AND csb.acct_seq_no = temp.acct_seq_no
AND rownum < 2
WHERE
EXISTS
SELECT 1
FROM csban_abi_temp temp1
WHERE 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
Explained.
SQL>
SQL>
SQL> SELECT * FROM TABLE(dbms_xplan.display);
PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
Plan hash value: 584770029
| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost
| TQ |IN-OUT| PQ Distrib |
PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
| 0 | UPDATE STATEMENT | | 530K| 19M| 8213
| | | |
| 1 | UPDATE | CSBAN_2 | | |
| | | |
|* 2 | FILTER | | | |
| | | |
| 3 | PX COORDINATOR | | | |
| | | |
PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
| 4 | PX SEND QC (RANDOM) | :TQ10000 | 530K| 19M| 8213
| Q1,00 | P->S | QC (RAND) |
| 5 | PX BLOCK ITERATOR | | 530K| 19M| 8213
| Q1,00 | PCWC | |
| 6 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | CSBAN_2 | 530K| 19M| 8213
| Q1,00 | PCWP | |
|* 7 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | IDX_CSB_ABI_TMP | 1 | 10 | 3
PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
| | | |
|* 8 | COUNT STOPKEY | | | |
| | | |
| 9 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| CSBAN_ABI_TEMP | 1 | 38 | 4
| | | |
|* 10 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | IDX_CSB_ABI_TMP | 1 | | 3
| | | |
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T_SEQ_NO"=:B1 AND
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Note
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30 rows selected.
The query had completed and it took 1 hr 47 mts.
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old 1: UPDATE /*+ INDEX(acct_id,acct_seq_no) */ csban_&1 csb
new 1: UPDATE /*+ INDEX(acct_id,acct_seq_no) */ csban_1 csb
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