Re: [xine-user] xine and s-dvb timed recording

[Mike L. <mi...@se...>]

Hi All,
On Friday 19 August 2005 01:45, Pam and Geoff Childs wrote:
> I have read the README.dvb in the Xine tarball and using Xine I can
> successfully record satellite digital broadcast streams straight onto my
> hard disk by pressing <F1>. FANTASTICCCCCCCCC!!

:)

> BUT there's no timer I could find - so I have to be present to switch on
> the recording and later to stop it. Does anyone know of any method of timed
> start/stop recording of s-dvb streams using Xine ??

no, unfortunately.  I ran out of time to implement timed recordings.  IIRC, 
kaffeine can do dvb recording now, or if you're really keen to have 
digital-vcr features, perhaps a combination of VDR or MythTV with xine as the 
frontend.  Sorry.

> Alternatively I'm able to start/stop Xine from a QT application and so if
> there is a CommandLine instruction to start recording I can time it from
> the application. BUT I cannot find the CLI to start recording. Does anyone
> know if it exists and if so what?

perhaps using the LIRC console commands via the --stdctl option would do the 
trick.

> Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards
Mike