[mythtv] [PATCH] Changing channels in the background

[Dan Wilga]

At 7:35 PM -0600 3/2/05, Chris Bagwell wrote:
>Actually, I may try a different approach.  Instead of adding & to
>mythtv, I may make a C deamon program to change channels using lirc. 
>This way I don't have to load up a shell or get the overhead
>of running irsend multiple times.

I'm working on what I hope will be a very robust version of this, 
written in Perl. It will:

- deal with multiple IR devices in one script

- reproduce what irsend does, to avoid the overhead of a system call, 
and also the problem it has with sending to multiple devices at the 
exact same moment

- optionally zero-pad channels like "99" to "099"

I hope to finish an alpha version of it sometime this weekend.
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