[mythtv-users] Feature request: Manually invoke User Jobs from mythfrontend

[Dave Stubbs]

Ian Forde wrote:

>On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 22:38 -0400, Dave Stubbs wrote:
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>>>You can already do this, I know it is in 0.20, but don't remember when
>>>it was added before that.  The jobs only appear on the popup menu if they are
>>>defined, so a person who doesn't use them doesn't have to see them on
>>>the Watch Recordings popup menu.
>>>
>>> 
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>>Is there any setting that has to be enabled for this to work?  I see the 
>>jobs on the pop-up menu, but when selecting them, nothing seems to show 
>>up in the backend job queue.
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>Works for me from mythfrontend.  What I'd really like would be to be
>able to invoke them from mythweb.  When on the road and I want to watch
>something I've recorded, I'd like start the job (encode for Treo) and
>copy it to wherever I am for me to watch... Plus, a treo-encoded job is
>*MUCH* smaller (and takes less time to transfer), and I can watch it
>while on a hotel treadmill instead of "Everybody Loves Raymond" which
>was on just now... ;)
>
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:-) indeed.

I'm wondering if it's a problem for me because I'm trying to activate 
these jobs on mythfrontend on a slave machine.  I'll have to try it on 
the master.