[mythtv-users] How MythTV Works / Custom Front End

[Raymond Wagner]

On 5/3/2011 05:17, Benn Cass (STAFF) wrote:
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> Does mythTV use a database to start recordings off?
>

That depends on what you mean by a recording.  If you want to spawn a 
recording directly, as in a LiveTV session, that is done entirely over 
the backend protocol.  If you want to add a rule to the scheduler, you 
must add the rule manually to the database, and then use the backend 
protocol to force the scheduler to rerun.

> So can I just to an insert sql statement into a database table?
>

That depends on your language of choice.  If you're running perl, 
python, or php, we have loadable bindings that can be used to interface 
with the backend and database.  If they don't support a method you want, 
feel free to add it and submit a patch upstream.  There is also a fairly 
recent set of ruby bindings on github, and an outdated set of java 
bindings on sourceforge.