command line recording of video and/or MythTV backend setup

[cyberlala]

I just read the previous post about recording audio without running XWindows, but I'm interested in recording shows over shell commands.

I have tvtime working properly. I've tried to set up MythTv but cannot get back end completely configured (keeps telling me to run ./setup, but I cannot find where ./setup is supposed to be)

I would appreciate any help I can get on this.

Thanks in advance

[CheshireCat]

Gentoo installs the file you're looking for as /usr/bin/mythsetup. Good luck w/ MythTV, I've found it to be a great application so far.

[lbrtuk]

MythTV is fantastic if you want a pvr, but not really ideal for just simple recording.

For simple commandline video recording, I reccomend ffmpeg.

[blueworm]

If you are looking for a commandline recording program try vcr

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emerge vcr

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/VCR-HOWTO.html

[J0rus]

I use mencoder which is part of the mplayer package. Here's a simple script I use to record shows:

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root@node-2: pts/1: 7 files 99Mb | cat recordtv.sh
#/bin/sh

z=$(($1*60))
nice -n -19 mencoder tv:// -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0:input=2:norm=ntsc:alsa:amode=1 -of avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=2500 -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=0:cbr=128:aq=6:mode=0 -o $2-`date +%d-%m-%y`.avi -endpos $z

Then I call it from my crontab like this:

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/path/to/recordtv.sh 60 show

The first variable is length of recording in minutes, second is show name which is automatically appended with the date and .avi.
If you have questions about the syntax check out the man/info pages for mencoder.
Oh, it's worth noting the above code works with mplayer 1.0pre1/2; don't think it's the same for older versions...

~J0rus