[mythtv-users] Perpetual recording with MythTV?

Greg Oliver oliver.greg at gmail.com
Mon Sep 27 20:34:48 UTC 2010


On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:05 AM, jeetu.golani at gmail.com
> <jeetu.golani at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> Are you recording a TV signal?
>>
>> Yes I am recording a TV signal for later analysis (maybe manually
>> scanned). However, I would like to record without a program guide.
>
> Mythtv is heavily dependent on a program guide for scheduling. Make up a
> "dummy" schedule as an xmltv file, which is simply has, say, the same
> programme title in each hour, say "perpetual recording" and the date and
> time as subtitle (in this context subtitle is the episode name, not text
> that pops up on screen). Then import that via mythfilldatabase and then set
> myth to record every episode of "perpetual recording".
>
> Your xml file would look something like:
>
> <tv>
>  <channel id="the.one.channel.we.want">
>                 <display-name>Perpetual TV</display-name>
> </channel>
>
> <programme channel="the.one.channel.we.want" start="20100928070000 +1300"
> stop="20100928080000 +1300">
>                 <title lang="eng">Perpetual Recording</title>
>                 <sub-title>28-09-2010 7.00 am</sub-title>
> </programme>
> (repeat the above block every hour, easy to generate via a simple script)
> </tv>
>
> You then get your recording in one hour blocks (of course if you want
> smaller or larger blocks, the concept is easy to change).

Pretty cool - substitute some motion detection software for the
commflag stuff and you have a CCTV camera DVR with thumbnail previews,
on the fly archiving, etc...  Very advanced over what is out there
(that does not cost 10s to 100s of thousands of dollars anyhow)...


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