[mythtv-users] Import Recorder howto

[Gert]

Mike Perkins schreef:
> Nigel Pearson wrote:
>> Gert van der Knokke wrote:
>>
>>> I was hoping I could connect this to an external recorder like gnutv 
>>> (which can handle my firedtv+ca-module+smartcard whereas Mythbackend 
>>> only handles the unencrypted channels)
>>
>> That will be tricky, but yes it should be possible.
>>
>> You need something external (like a script) to either
>> monitor the backend logs for a recording startup message,
>> or to be invoked by the new Myth "System Events",
>> to invoke gnutv and generate the recording file.
>>
> Aren't you in danger of some kind of "chicken and egg" situation here? 
> If the system event is triggered, and you rely on that to start the 
> external recorder, the intermediate file/pipe won't exist at that 
> point and the whole thing will collapse.
>
> To get that to work I suspect you're going to have to do some fairly 
> detailed sequence analysis to make sure things happen in the right order.
>
For now I created a cronlist for user mythtv which records some fairly 
fixed programs and stores it on the backend.
It works flawlessly but alas without the convenience of a guide...
I will dig in deeper if I have the time to install Mythtv from source.

Gert