[mythtv-users] Reserving an encoder for an external program?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/21/2006 09:19 AM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> I assumed the scheduler could handle the interaction with mythfrontend 
> via telnet at the appropriate times to reserve the tuner by launching 
> the EXECTV menu item (would could be nothing more than a dummy process 
> that waits for input from the scheduler to return when the radio 
> recording is done).

But since mythfrontend runs the dummy process in the foreground, that 
mythfrontend instance would be unusable during the radio recording...

Mike