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

[Kevin Kuphal]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> 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...
>
>   
Correct.  Which is why I would suggest this be a "headless" or otherwise 
unused mythfrontend process, maybe even running in XVNC or some other 
product like it.  That way this "ghost" mythfrontend process can be 
controlled independent of any other normal mythfrontends.

Kevin