[mythtv-users] Perpetual recording with MythTV?

jeetu.golani at gmail.com jeetu.golani at gmail.com
Mon Sep 27 13:46:19 UTC 2010


Hello,

First, let me admit that I am not intrinsically familiar with all of MythTV
therefore pls forgive if I'm asking something that should be apparent :)

I have a need and I wonder if MyhTV can fill that role or it would be better
to start off from scratch. The core requirements I have are:

- 24x7 recording for 30 or 60 days.
- Being able to auto-expire content that is more than 30 or 60 days old.
- Recording without an EPG (electronic program guide)
- Facility to pull out recorded footage based solely on time slice - start
time - end time.
- Transcode the pulled out clip with a timestamp.
- (Optional but desireable) The ability to add metadata to this pulled out
clip such as Title and to be able to search clips that have been pulled out
in the past.

Other features such as Commercial tagging are definite pluses in favour of
MythTV.

My experimentation with the Manual Recording in MythTV shows that I can at
most schedule a recording for 360 minutes - so far I have not been able to
figure out how I can schedule it to keep it recording perpetually without a
program guide.

Similarly while viewing the recording I have not been able to figure out how
I can pull out a recording based solely on start - stop time. I can mark a
cut list and then go about transcoding it though that is too
run-about....any chance of a user job or something with a UI wherein this
can be all done more directly?

The perpetual recording feature seems to be something like what a Zoneminder
CCTV recording solution may need - however I haven't experimented with
it....what I would appreciate is if someone could point me of specific
advanced features or customizations within MythTV that would allow me to do
each of the above....or point me in a direction as to whether I would need
to write my own plugin to have this work....or is MythTV not the ideal tool
for the job here.

Sincerely appreciate all help here :)

Thanks,
Jeetu
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