[mythtv-users] mythmusic alternatives

[Robert Logan]

Mike Perkins wrote:
> Tom Greer wrote:
>> As long as we are brainstorming...
>>
>> My digital cable service provides a bazillion (or so) radio stations,
>> but MythTV won't tune them because there is no video in the stream.
>> It would be nice to be able to tune these.
>>
> In the UK, we have radio stations available on both Freeview (DVB-T) and 
> cable. Perhaps not bazillions, but a fair choice anyhow. We can 
> record/play these as TV streams, but storing 2Gb/hr of essentially blank 
> video is irritating, to say the least.

Im using myth 0.20a (stable latest) proabably like most people and one
hour of Radio4 is only 90 megs - I believe myth sticks a dummy video
transport stream onto it - but it takes no space. heres the output
of Womans Hour today:

ffmpeg  -i 1704_20070704095900.mpg

Input #0, mpegts, from '1704_20070704095900.mpg':
  Duration: 01:03:15.3, start: 77661.672089, bitrate: 200 kb/s
  Stream #0.0[0x1872](eng): Audio: mp3
  Stream #0.1[0x21], 25.00 fps: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x576,
8000 kb/s