[mythtv] Custom Button Layout

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Jan 23, 2007, at 2:57 PM, jam at tigger.ws wrote:

> Hi
> I've used myth for years, but not fiddled it much.
> I want to build a custom DVR
>
> [record]	starts recording the composite in
> [stop]		stops
> [play]		plays
>
> Can I easily change the button layout to achieve this.
> Should I be looking at something else eg DVR.
>
> A brief look at the xml layout hints at great possibilities, maybe  
> a custom
> theme that does exactly what I want?
>
> Comments from those wiser than I <smile>
> James

If this is all you need to do, myth is overkill. Just write some  
scripts to cat /dev/video to a file and stop it when you hit a button  
on the remote. You could write a quick PHP page to grab the files  
from the directory and launch xine or mplayer when you click on them  
or trigger clicks with lirc events.