[mythtv-users] HLS

John Burroughs jw at jwb2.net
Sat Sep 21 20:32:32 UTC 2019


John:

John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 12:34 PM John Burroughs <jw at jwb2.net> wrote:
>

[...]

>
> A bit more work to setup, but you could use the "generic" ExternalRecorder application to
> leverage VLC to record instead of using the built-in HLS recorder.
>
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Example_Configuration_files
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ExternalRecorder
>
> If you setup "channels" like in the example, you then "scan" those channels into MythTV.  The
> ExternalRecorder does support multi-rec, which basically just means that overlapping
> recordings will work.  You can create multiple ExternalRecorder configurations, which would
> allow you to record that many channels from that source simultaneously.
>
> The wiki documentation could use some work, so please contribute if you can improve them.  I
> am pretty busy these days, but will try to answer questions.

Thanks, I will study this in more detail and try with one of my failing
channels. If I am able, I will try and improve the documentation based
on my experiences.

I will keep everyone informed on the result.
>
> John
>
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