[mythtv-users] Can I use MythTV for this?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

I think this would be possible.  There may be two options:

(a) I believe there is a 'transcoding' patch circulating that will
automatically transcode recordings once they are finished... however, I'm
not sure but I think the resulting file is still in the Myth .nuv format
(which you could, of course, play with a patched MPlayer, but I'm assuming
your laptop is running Windows)

(b) there is also a Perl script circulating called MythMkMovie, which will
do exactly what you want.  Right now I think you have to run it manually,
but I seem to recall the author saying that he wanted to add the ability (if
it's not there already) to have it pull the recording information from the
database.  All you'd have to do would be somehow kick off MythMkMovie
automatically, perhaps as a daily cron job or something.

All in all, the answer is YES, but you may have to do a little bit of
scripting on your own to get the exact setup you want.

-Joe C.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of Mark Levitt
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 6:28 AM
> To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Can I use MythTV for this?
>
>
> I've got a spare PIII 800 that I'm using as a headless
> fileserver. What I'd
> like to do is stick a WinTV-250 into it and set up MythTV so that it
> automatically records various shows (ER, Westwing, Simpsons,
> etc). Then, once
> the WinTV-250 captures them to Mpeg2, have them automatically
> converted to a
> DivX AVI.
>
> So, a few questions:
> 1) Is this possible?
> 2) If it is possible, is it possible with MythTV?
> 3) Is MythTV the best solution for this? Or are their simpler
> solutions that
> will get me what I want.
>
> Thanks!