[mythtv-users] OT: mencoder recording

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Tue Sep 16 02:11:01 UTC 2008


On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Bob <mythtv at cox.net> wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Bob <mythtv at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to use mencoder from the command line to occasionally record
>>> programs.  The backend seems to work fine, is there a way I can get the
>>>  program id, audio id, video id from the backend so I can set-up a
>>> mencoder config file?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Why would you do this?
>>
> My neighborhood has "on demand" now.  I can tune to 1 of about 5
> channels and sometimes get lucky and find a show playing.  I have a
> spare DVB tuner (as you noticed) and would like to create a cron job to
> detect when content is available.  Once I determine that content is
> available, I can use mythweb to schedule the recording.
>
> However, sounds like this idea will not work.

I don't quite know what you mean by "on demand". Can you explain what
it is and how it differs from other TV channels, as well as the
delivery mechanism?


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