Hi again, Thanks for all the replies! I've checked out a few programs and decided to use dvbstream as Tim Hewett suggested. >> Obviously, you seem to have never actually tried VDR. It's >> extremely lean and clean and it don't need to run with any output. >> You can telnet into it and schedule recordings and it's easy to >> view recordings over NFS, or use a streaming media client directly >> towards VDR with a suitable streaming plugin. I installed VDR after reading your message but that's about as far as I got. I couldn't work out how to do a scan to pick up all the channels, and I may have been willing to create a channel config file manually except that there were a number of other issues. For a start, the telnet syntax was rather cumbersome - crontabs may be just as bad but at least you can copy and paste :-) Also I couldn't see where you control the name of the files that VDR outputs - I want a single file for each show (>4GB if need be) with the name of the show and the time it was recorded, but I don't think VDR can do that. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about VDR, I just think that it's not suitable for the very specific purpose I'm after. I do appreciate the suggestion though! > Tim Hewett wrote: > I just use dvbstream, scheduled using cron. To work with that I wrote > a utility to work out which is the next schedule in the crontab and > set the hardware alarm clock time to have the computer boot a few > minutes in advance of the recording time, run it just before shutting > down (it shuts it down for you) and the PC then wakes at the right > time. I also modified dvbstream to allow the DVB device name to be > used instead of its adaptor number, to cater for the devices changing > numbers between bootups. Some initial changes were made to dvbstream > to specify a programme name to be monitored in the now/next programme > info, to try to cater for early programme starts or overruns, but I > can't say that it is reliable as it hasn't been used much. Wow, that seems quite elaborate! Luckily my set up is a server that runs 24/7 anyway, so I don't need to worry about any power scheduling. Plus here in Australia most of our TV stations don't run to the times listed in the now/next info anyway (to influence ratings or some such) so I have to resort to the low-tech method of starting early and finishing late. I've experimented with dvbstream and now that it can work with Program IDs instead of bare PIDs I think it will do the job nicely. Again, thanks for the suggestions! Cheers, Adam. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
