<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:02 PM, DISAFAN <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:disafan@aim.com">disafan@aim.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've looked through the mailing list logs and read a few discussions of<br>
a similar nature, but wanted feedback on this problem I'm having.<br>
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I maintain a MythTV system in my home consisting of a variety of tuners<br>
and misc HD components. My relatives have a vacation home a few hours<br>
away I often visit on weekends. There is basic cable in analog there, so<br>
I took my extra analog cards I used to use in my original system and<br>
some old computer components and built a combined BE/FE there. It has<br>
created several issues.<br>
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1. When I'm coming up, I want to log onto the system remotely...which I<br>
can do, and setup the program schedule I have on my primary to record<br>
there, so I can watch the programs locally. I haven't thought of a good<br>
automatic way to do this. How do I tell a system to copy only the<br>
schedule for a certain time period to another system? Especially when<br>
the instructions for many recording schedules are Record at Any Time on<br>
Channel ___?<br>
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Since analog cable is basic, and thus I'm missing many channels I<br>
normally get, I often bring programs by exporting them to an external<br>
hard drive and carrying them along. Not a problem there, but....<br>
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2. I'm afraid that analog will get a shutdown there any month now, and<br>
I've added a cheap digital tuner, which will allow it to keep broadcast<br>
stations(no broadcast reception up here though). I'm looking for<br>
thoughts on transferring the shows over the net to the remote system. If<br>
the program aired while I'm away, there is no way to verify a commercial<br>
flag, so I can't save space by cutting commercials, because I might<br>
lose a piece of the show. That creates several questions.<br>
a. What is the best compression setting/codec I should use in this<br>
case? Many of these things are HD, and I don't have that kind of<br>
bandwidth, alas. A 74mb file takes 20-30 minutes to transfer.<br>
b. How can I best automate this? I don't need every program<br>
transferred. I'd like to set it up as a user job on the home system,<br>
where I can specify for any recording to run the job, which will<br>
transcode the episode into an ultra-compressed format while keeping the<br>
HD original for the home computer, and schedule it for uploading to the<br>
remote system, perhaps using a cron job. And then a second cron job on<br>
the remote that adds it to the remote database.<br>
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I'd welcome some real-life stories of people who may have done similar<br>
projects, or how you might suggest I implement such a system. I also<br>
have to fiddle with wakeup settings to make this work, because the<br>
system is programming to shut itself down while setting the next<br>
recording time, as I don't live there, there may be days in between<br>
recordings.</blockquote><div><br>One word: slingbox<br><br>You're using the wrong technology to solve this problem<br><br>Kevin</div></div><br></div>