[mythtv-users] Channel-change script
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
Sat Aug 30 16:11:19 UTC 2008
Glenn Sommer wrote:
> Hey
>
> I'm trying to get IPTV to work using the "network recorder" device.
>
> Sadly mythtv cannot directly use the streams I get from my provider -
> so I'm re-encoding them using VLC.
>
> It is not possible to download and re-encode all channels at once
> (That would require a lot of bandwidth and CPU power).
>
>
> So, I would like to have a channel-changing script that would enable
> the needed VLC streamer when tuning into a channel.
> How can this be done?
> I cannot see an option for making mythtv run a script when changing channels...
It depends on what sort of tuner card you are running. The PVR setup has
a space for a channel changer, intended to change an STB with an IR
blaster, but a script is a script...
beww
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