On Mo, 2005-12-26 at 13:49 +0100, Lars Fredriksson wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using a quite "ugly" solution that might do the thing that you want! > > I have a server with 4 DVB cards and all the HDD, and the I have a > client connected to the server using streamdev. The servers > video-directory is mounted using NFS to the client. same here ... > Whan I want to record something on TV I just ad the timer on the client. > The I have a script on the server that is run every minute that connects > to the client using SVDRP and lists all timers, if it finds a timer it > deletes it and adds the same timer on the server instead. script on client side would be great, because the server is always on. Made a quit test - just adding via "cat" the clients timers.conf to the server, but obviously this doesnt work > If I start a "direct" recording on the client (presses red in the menu) > the cleint starts to record immediately (in the video-directory thats > mounted using NFS), after max 1 minute the timer is deleted from the > client and moved to the server - the server continues to record in the > same directory, so there is only maybe one second of video thats > missing > what happens if there are already timers on the server? /uwe > > It works quite well for me - drop me a mail if youre intrested of the > Perl-script (it's really ugly and simple) - lars(at)jpl.se > > > /Lars > > > Thus spake Uwe Ortner (uwe.ortner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx): > > > Hello, > > > > any chance to initiate (from client) a recording via SVDRP on a server? > > > > For this, some information such as channel number, time/date should be > > parsed from a highlighted entry (submenu "program") to SVDRP. Is that in > > general possible (maybe via the unused blue key)? > > > > uwe
