[mythtv-users] Query playback position from frontend

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Michael Robinson <mike at robinsonhome.org> wrote:
> Is there a way to query the current playback position from a frontend
> while a program is being viewed?  I'd like to write a script that can
> poll the frontend during playback every ten seconds, or so.  The
> telnet interface doesn't appear to have this ability.

Example from the telnet interface:

# query location
Playback Recorded 6:18 of 31:55 1x 1221 2011-01-15T09:29:00 11356
myth://192.168.0.205:6543/1221_20110115092900.mpg 29.97

You can get the playback position from this.

Jim