[mythtv-users] Suggested Software for Recording HDTV

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Sun Apr 20 23:20:36 UTC 2008


On Apr 20, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Rick Bilonick wrote:

>
> On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 11:38 -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
>> On Apr 19, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Rick Bilonick wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there some stand-alone program that mythtv uses that I could  
>>> use to
>>> record without installing all of mythtv?
>>
>> I think the best "program" for dumping the stream to a file is a
>> pretty well-known one. It's called "cat". :-)
>>
>> beww
>
> Given that no one has had any useful suggestions about stand-alone
> programs for recording digital broadcasts (other than getatsc and
> pchdtvr), I will have to assume that there aren't any. But it would be
> interesting to know what mythtv uses to record the data stream.

I wasn't trying to be facetious. If you can control your card to get  
the right program tuned etc., then just catting it to a file, perhaps  
with a shell script, should work fine.

beww



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