[mythtv-users] Recording audio (radio) only for DVB WAS mythmusic alternatives

Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz
Tue Jul 10 05:06:33 UTC 2007


Robert Longbottom wrote:
> On Wed, July 4, 2007 11:01 am, Mike Perkins wrote:
>   
>> Tom Greer wrote:
>>     
>>> As long as we are brainstorming...
>>>
>>> My digital cable service provides a bazillion (or so) radio stations,
>>> but MythTV won't tune them because there is no video in the stream.
>>> It would be nice to be able to tune these.
>>>
>>>       
>> In the UK, we have radio stations available on both Freeview (DVB-T) and
>> cable. Perhaps not bazillions, but a fair choice anyhow. We can
>> record/play these as TV streams, but storing 2Gb/hr of essentially blank
>> video is irritating, to say the least.
>>
>> To flag these channels as "audio only" (or whatever) in the database and
>> then just process that part of the stream on recording and playback
>> would be a help.
>>
>> Mike Perkins
>>     
>
> I thought I'd seen an option in Recording Profiles -> DVB for this.  I
> can't check right now because I'm not in front of my Myth box, but it
> might be worth a look.
>
> Robert.
>   

In recording profiles I make a new profile Group called Radio and set it 
up to record audio only for the "default" "LiveTV", "High Quality" and 
"Low Quality" settings - now how do I associate this profile with the 
Radio channels on the DVB card?



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