[mythtv-users] using WinTV PVR-350 to play AM/FM radio? (slightly OT)

[Jeff Simpson]

here's a site that lists public radio schedules, looks like a LOT of
stations:

http://www.publicradiofan.com/cgi-bin/whatson.pl?when=nowlookahead&lookahead=200&format=grid

But to tell you the truth, I think the hardest and most important part will
be integrating the recording and scheduling into myth. Things that will have
to be handled:

Adding the radio as a separate tuner would easily give you the ability to
add channels and a separate channel-changing script
However, it would get more complicated, since the radio and TV tuner can't
be used at the same time, you'd need a way to handle conflicts (somehow link
the radio tuner to a TV tuner?)
How to actually record and store the recordings. Will it record directly to
mp3, or does it need to be piped through an encoder. Can we store it in the
same recordings database myth uses, or is it best to keep them separate?

Sounds like it could potentially be a major change to myth.

On 4/3/06, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/3/06, Jeff Simpson <jeffsimpson at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
> > > Yes. I will put the effort into developing it, unless someone else
> does it
> > first. There are radio talk shows that I like to listen too... and being
> > able to record them, automatically rip the commercials, and encode them
> to
> > mp3 would be very desirable. At the moment my plate is pretty full, but
> as
> > soon as things settle down some I will get going on this....
> >
> >
> > This does sound like a great idea. I would probably listen to a lot more
> > radio if I could pick which shows to listen to and fast-forward
> commercials.
> >
> > I don't think you will be able to automatically commercial-detect like
> you
> > can with video - a lot of the video commercial detection algorithms
> depend
> > on the actual frames of video. Worth a shot, though
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > I wonder if there is a database somewhere for radio programming? The
> > database for radio shows might have to be divided up by hour and labeled
> by
> > the date and time... ie...
> > >
> > >         |   8     |  8:30  |   9
> > > NBC |   earl  | office  |  etc
> > > 98.5  |  98.5 8-9 4/06| 98.5 9-10 4/06
> > >
> > > thus when you go to schedule via mythweb/guide then you would just
> select
> > the hours you want to record.
> >
> >
> > Screenscraping the actual stations webpages might be the only way. I
> think
> > manually recording might be the best way for now, seeing as there are SO
> > many radio stations, and some of them re-use the same frequencies if
> they
> > are far enough apart. Easier to just know what time to record.
>
> thats the best way I can think, perhaps a plugin system for scraping
> specific station webpages?
>
> --
> Steve
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