[mythtv-users] suggestions for improving my external channel changing script

[Joe Auty]

j. berger wrote:
> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> On Oct 25, 2007, at 8:43 AM, Joe Auty wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>>>    
>>>> On Oct 24, 2007, at 10:49 PM, Joe Auty wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> Often times my IR blaster external channel changing script does not
>>>>> change to the correct channels. When the script is invoked, video
>>>>> becomes very jerky as if the CPU is temporarily pegged, and  therefore
>>>>> timing is often messed up. Sleep times seem inconsistent, and
>>>>> therefore
>>>>> the results of this script are inconsistent.
>>>>>         
> I have a script that uses mplayer and gocr to look at the first few
> seconds of my myth recording file to determine if the channel changed. 
> This will only work if your cable system inserts the channel number into
> the stream.  You will have to adjust the crop line to for your cable
> systems on screen info area.
> 
> 

Hmmm... I tried your script, but I don't have the ivtv-tune binary or
send_channel_change binaries/scripts. Where would I get this?

Looks very well done though, I'd love to get it to work!




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