[mythtv-users] pass info for job queue status

[Brad Benson]

On 10/28/05, WiFi Fun <wififun at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am working on a myth2ipod/portable script with some great help from
> a few others. I need some direction as to where to look for an example
> of providing progress information so that the backend status on
> mythweb and system info can display progress. After poring through
> scripts, I am stumped as to where to look for doing this. It would be
> great to send a percentage complete, or fps of the encoding process so
> the user can monitor this.
>

Some time again I made a few modifications to nuvexport to support updating
of the status when running user jobs. I don't currently have access to those
mods as the machine holding them is currently down so I can't really give
many specifics at the moment. However, when you view the status of a job in
mythweb and it shows percentage complete, FPS, etc what it is displaying to
you is the value in the comment field of the jobqueue table in mysql. So any
status information you want to pass to other apps should be inserted into
mythconverg.jobqueue.comment for the job it pertains to.

If the app you're writing is in C++ I believe you will find some methods to
update this field in jobqueue.cpp (don't recall offhand where that file
lives in the source tree). If your app isn't in C++ then you'll probably
have to write your own methods to access the DB and update that field.

Hope that helps,
Brad Benson
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20051028/12f482b9/attachment.htm