[mythtv-users] Mythtv playback scheduling howto

[Raymond Wagner]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 21:02:53 -0400, Mauricio Henriquez
<buhochileno at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys:
> 
> Newby about mythtv and I just finishing compiling and installing all
> (think so), and also think that is running (bunch of messages but
backend
> run and later frontend to)..so still learning mostly *all and probably
this
> was answered somewhere..
> 
> What I try to do, is to schedule different kind of media (videos, flikr
> albums, youtube,wheater, etc..), setting the time and day to play, loop,
> etc..pretty much like set your own channel from different sources and
later
> just watch that channel (is for a internal channel here at my Univ..you
> know, some *voluntary* work to learn something new :-) ..

The closest to what you are looking for would probably be to write a
script that interfaces through the frontend control socket, and triggers
things to be played from recordings or videos.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frontend_control_socket