[mythtv-users] command line Myth

[Vincent Yau]

Ok. so maybe I should explain why I posted my original question.
Sorry if I was not clear.
Nick is right.  I would like to control mythbackend from command
line, mainly to schedule program.  I can do it over a socket
connection and that is fine too.
So as Nick puts it, something like:
    record --channel 1 --start 200602071300 --length 120 --name "Battlestar 
Galactica" --options "do_it_every_week"


My motivation?  It is a weird one but it works for my situation.

I have a linux box, and using an older rev. of a bttv based card.
I use Myth to record TV and it works GREAT.  I also uses VideoLan (VLC)
to stream live TV and recordings onto my network.
However, I discovered that when streaming live TV,  the whole
TV picture would shift about 1/4 of the screen upwards and also
flickers quite a bit.  The problem would go away, as weird as it may seem,
if I use Myth to record anyting for even just 1 minute.  It would
get back a perfect quality live TV screen on my VLC stream.
I suspect since VLC uses ffmpeg, it is a ffmpeg problem.  I could
not, however, figure out what is going wrong.  I did tried
last year on using ffmpeg alone to do capture
and had problems then.

So my solution is to record a one minute show using Myth and my live
TV stream will fix itself back to normal.  And for obvious reasons,
I would like to automate this and hence why I asked
for a command line interface for Myth to schedule recordings.

Thanks for all the  great input.

--vincent


>From: Nick Rout <nick at rout.co.nz>
>Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] command line Myth
>Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:43:17 +1300
>
>
>On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:54:55 -0500
>Tom Lichti wrote:
>
>
> > >
> > >
> > Ah. It's still not clear exactly what the OP wants. I assumed he had a
> > recording from something else that he wanted to add to the database. I
> > think you are correct though, in which case I think there was another
> > post with better information.
> >
> > Tom
>
>It was clear to me that he wants to control myth over something like
>telnet or ssh, so he can input something like:
>
>record --channel 1 --start 200602071300 --length 120 --name "Battlestar 
>Galactica" --options "do_it_every_week"
>
>So maybe the answer is to wait for 0.19, which according to the release
>notes:
>
>"Added ability to control MythFrontend through a telnet socket"
>
>
>--
>Nick Rout <nick at rout.co.nz>
>
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