[mythtv] Inserting into the database and scheduling a job from
a script
Ian Forde
ian at duckland.org
Mon Sep 5 02:22:32 UTC 2005
On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 14:58 -0700, Ian Forde wrote:
> Hi all -
And just for good measure let's say that since I wrote this earlier
message, I've made some progress... details inline...
> Let's say, for example, that I had the wild and crazy idea to modify
> mythtivo to... instead of playing a recording with its custom version of
> mplayer... call a script instead that will do the following:
Haven't modified mythtivo yet - I'm making a script first...
> 1. Extract the show from my Tivo
Done
> 2. Convert to mpeg2
Done
> 3. Put the file into my recording directory
Done, with the date/time of the recording from the Tivo, although there
are some problems (such as the fact that Tivo doesn't give the year, nor
the length of the recording)
> 4. Call a modified myth.rebuilddatabase.pl script to insert the
> appropriate records ito the db (which I haven't done yet - my perl is
> AWFUL!)
This is next to work on getting automated...
> 5. Call mythcommflag to add a seek table to the recording
Got this scripted....
> Well, I figure that should get me most of the way there. Unfortunately,
> I don't get to cut commercials very easily. Sooo... I figured I'd do
> something really ugly...
>
> 6. Insert a job into the scheduler to transcode the recording
Still need to automate this.
> At that point, I *should*, theoretically, be able to edit the recording
> to pull commercials and transcode it again...
I've tested the manual steps of this and it works. I pulled 2 episodes
of Farscape from my Tivo today and now they're quite happy inside my
Myth Watch Recordings screen - I was even able to cut commercials and
send it off to the transcoder.
> So I'm stuck at steps 4 (due to my ugly perl) and step 6, which I have
> no idea how to do... should be a simple question, but it's eluding me...
So I'm still stuck at steps 4 and 6, but it's no longer a theoretical
exercise as far as scripts go... I've currently got a workable method to
get shows from my Series 1 Tivo into my MythTV Watch Recordings
screen...
Incidentally, why would I go through all of this pain? Because MythTV's
commercial cutting is easier, than anything else, and it just plain
works. Plus, I need to get some recordings off of the Tivo, and I don't
like commercials in my saved recordings...
Still looking for suggestions!
-I
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