[mythtv-users] Recording OK, Playing back OK - But not both?

[Dan Brown]

As far as I know the only conflict-resolution is manual. If two shows 
are always in conflict you can set it to remember your selection of 
which one should be recorded. If you have multiple tuners, you can 
record both :)

Joel Feenstra

Åke Brännström wrote:
> Dear Myth-TV users,
> 
> I've read about Myth-TV on the web, and it seems to be very good. 
> However, since it  also seems to be rather difficult to install, judging 
> from all the problems reported from this list,  I would appreciate if 
> you could answer some questions I have that I couldn't find answers to 
> on the net.
> 
> For a while, I've been using home brewed software to automatically 
> record TV. Specifically, a value is assigned to a each show based on 
> category, keyword matching and a list of shows I don't want to see. The 
> shows to record in order to maximize the sum of values is then 
> calculated using an exact algorithm (as opposed to a probabilistic). The 
> shows are then recorded as NuppelVideo and later denoised, deinterlaced 
> and converted to divx. Thus, I am able to store one weeks worth of good 
> TV, all automatically. The questions are then:
> 
> 1. Does MythTV have a similar system that automatically records good 
> shows? How does it work?
> 2. Does MythTV have a simple way of scheduling recordings from the 
> command line? This would be good if I need to integrate my system with 
> MythTV.
> 3. Does MythTV support the option of encoding the recordings to divx in 
> the background? This is necessary, since there is no way I can store 
> some 70 hours of recordings as NuppelVideo.
> 
> Any help you could give would be much appreciated.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Ake Brannstrom
> 
> 
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