[mythtv-users] command line Myth

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/03/2006 03:36 AM, Vincent Yau wrote:
> Ok. so maybe I should explain why I posted my original question.
> Sorry if I was not clear.
> Nick is right.  I would like to control mythbackend from command
> line, mainly to schedule program.  I can do it over a socket
> connection and that is fine too.
> So as Nick puts it, something like:
>     record --channel 1 --start 200602071300 --length 120 --name "Battlestar 
> Galactica" --options "do_it_every_week"
>
>
> My motivation?  It is a weird one but it works for my situation.
>
> I have a linux box, and using an older rev. of a bttv based card.
> I use Myth to record TV and it works GREAT.  I also uses VideoLan (VLC)
> to stream live TV and recordings onto my network.
> However, I discovered that when streaming live TV,  the whole
> TV picture would shift about 1/4 of the screen upwards and also
> flickers quite a bit.  The problem would go away, as weird as it may seem,
> if I use Myth to record anyting for even just 1 minute.  It would
> get back a perfect quality live TV screen on my VLC stream.
> I suspect since VLC uses ffmpeg, it is a ffmpeg problem.  I could
> not, however, figure out what is going wrong.  I did tried
> last year on using ffmpeg alone to do capture
> and had problems then.
>
> So my solution is to record a one minute show using Myth and my live
> TV stream will fix itself back to normal.  And for obvious reasons,
> I would like to automate this and hence why I asked
> for a command line interface for Myth to schedule recordings.
>   
wget and MythWeb?

Mike