[mythtv-users] Query playback position from frontend

Michael Robinson mike at robinsonhome.org
Sun Jan 16 02:31:35 UTC 2011


On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Michael Robinson <mike at robinsonhome.org> wrote:
>> Is there a way to query the current playback position from a frontend
>> while a program is being viewed?  I'd like to write a script that can
>> poll the frontend during playback every ten seconds, or so.  The
>> telnet interface doesn't appear to have this ability.
>
> Example from the telnet interface:
>
> # query location
> Playback Recorded 6:18 of 31:55 1x 1221 2011-01-15T09:29:00 11356
> myth://192.168.0.205:6543/1221_20110115092900.mpg 29.97
>
> You can get the playback position from this.
>
> Jim

That was too easy...sorry I missed it.  Thanks a lot!

-Mike


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