[mythtv-users] Capture setup help

[James B. Huber]

On Wed, 2017-12-20 at 09:56 -0600, Richard Brandolino wrote:
> This example may help
> 
> 
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/IPTV_Encoders_as_a_Capture_Device
> 
> 
> On Dec 20, 2017 9:10 AM, "Peter Bennett" <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>         
>         
>         On 12/20/2017 10:00 AM, James B. Huber wrote:
>                 Folks,
>                    I am sure someone must have done this before, it
>                 seems like it should
>                 be simple, but so far it is eluding me.
>                 
>                 I have been using old PVR-500 cards, work fine but
>                 wanted to get better
>                 than SD resolution. So, my setup that I am trying to
>                 get working looks
>                 like this:
>                 
>                 Cable-box -> hdmi-splitter -> FBE200
>                 
>                 The hdmi-splitter handles hdmi-cp issues, the FBE200
>                 streams over the
>                 network either http, rtp, rtmp, etc.
>                 
>                 I use an IR-Blaster to set the channel on the
>                 cable-box.
>                 
>                 Setting up IPTV in Myth, have done the m3u playlist
>                 etc, but there
>                 doesn't appear to be anyway to configure the setup to
>                 use an external
>                 channel-changer script.
>                 
>                 Have also looked at live http streaming recorder
>                 setup, but same issue.
>                 
>                 Any bright ideas ?
>                 
>                 FWIW running 0.28.1-17 on CentOS 6.9
>                 
>                 Thank in Advance,
>                 Jim
>                 
>         I am not familiar with the IPTV recorder, but you could use
>         the "Start Recording" event to run a script to tune the
>         channel. There is an example in this article. It refers to the
>         Import Recorder, but the principle should be the same.
>         
>         https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Import_recorder#Using_an_external_recording_program
>         
>         Peter
>         
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I was able to warp to suit the IPTV information referenced using the
mythtv_recording_pending method.

Thanks for the help !

Jim