[mythtv-users] Services API :: Dvr

Chris Pinkham cpinkham at bc2va.org
Fri May 4 21:44:51 UTC 2012


* On Fri May 04, 2012 at 04:30:17PM -0400, George Nassas wrote:
> On 2012-05-04, at 10:04 AM, Christopher Brown <chris.jay.brown at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > How would one initiate a LiveTV recording using the services API?  My
> > guess is AddRecordSchedule ... but it doesn't seem to be documented on
> > the wiki.  Thanks
> 
> Someone asked this recently and the answer was you can't HLS stream live TV,
> only completed recordings. Chris Peterson is working on extending Myth that way.

Close....  Chris Pinkham. :)  First task is just being able to stream an
in-progress recording without it stopping when the transcode catches up
to realtime.  That's the 'easy' part.  True LiveTV will be a bit harder
since it needs to handle following through channel changes, etc..

--
Chris


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