<br>Hi Nick and all,<br><br>Sincerely appreciate the help.<br><br>Yes setting up a xmltv program guide this way could solve my problem of 24x7 recording. Thanks :)<br><br>I suppose auto-expiring these programs wouldn't be an issue either.<br>
<br>This still leaves me with the following required features <br><br>- Facility to pull out recorded footage based solely on time slice - start time - end time.<br>
- Transcode the pulled out clip with a timestamp.<br>-
(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.<br><br>I know transcoding can potentially be done using a user job?? though I haven't tried setting this up. How to pull out recorded footage solely on time slice is the one that baffles me...any ideas?<br>
<br>Another Sillyname:<br>>> Or use zoneminder<br><br>This could be a good direction to look at, I suppose CCTV footage would have (some) similar requirements. Do u mean Zoneminder itself or the Zoneminder + MythTV.combo?<br>
<br>Thanks so much for all your help - sincerely appreciate any pointers on how to get MythTV to fulfill the above features.<br><br>Regards,<br>Jeetu<br><a href="http://ebrain.in/" target="_blank">http://ebrain.in</a><br>
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*Developer code now released*<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Another Sillyname <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anothersname@googlemail.com">anothersname@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On 27 September 2010 21:34, Greg Oliver <<a href="mailto:oliver.greg@gmail.com">oliver.greg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Nick Rout <<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:05 AM, <a href="mailto:jeetu.golani@gmail.com">jeetu.golani@gmail.com</a><br>
>> <<a href="mailto:jeetu.golani@gmail.com">jeetu.golani@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> >> Are you recording a TV signal?<br>
>>><br>
>>> Yes I am recording a TV signal for later analysis (maybe manually<br>
>>> scanned). However, I would like to record without a program guide.<br>
>><br>
>> Mythtv is heavily dependent on a program guide for scheduling. Make up a<br>
>> "dummy" schedule as an xmltv file, which is simply has, say, the same<br>
>> programme title in each hour, say "perpetual recording" and the date and<br>
>> time as subtitle (in this context subtitle is the episode name, not text<br>
>> that pops up on screen). Then import that via mythfilldatabase and then set<br>
>> myth to record every episode of "perpetual recording".<br>
>><br>
>> Your xml file would look something like:<br>
>><br>
>> <tv><br>
>> <channel id="the.one.channel.we.want"><br>
>> <display-name>Perpetual TV</display-name><br>
>> </channel><br>
>><br>
>> <programme channel="the.one.channel.we.want" start="20100928070000 +1300"<br>
>> stop="20100928080000 +1300"><br>
>> <title lang="eng">Perpetual Recording</title><br>
>> <sub-title>28-09-2010 7.00 am</sub-title><br>
>> </programme><br>
>> (repeat the above block every hour, easy to generate via a simple script)<br>
>> </tv><br>
>><br>
>> You then get your recording in one hour blocks (of course if you want<br>
>> smaller or larger blocks, the concept is easy to change).<br>
><br>
> Pretty cool - substitute some motion detection software for the<br>
> commflag stuff and you have a CCTV camera DVR with thumbnail previews,<br>
> on the fly archiving, etc... Very advanced over what is out there<br>
> (that does not cost 10s to 100s of thousands of dollars anyhow)...<br>
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</div></div>Or use zoneminder<br>
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