Re: Fwd: Re: [Xmltv-devel] Re: OpenPVR scheduler

[Brian J. M. <5cd...@in...>]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 09:21:06PM -0800, Robert Eden wrote:
> 
> Make that Monday... all those shows are still on at once.

Ahhh.  Yes, but Third Watch is on at 10 as well as 9:

Third Watch:Transformed 2 7 110 5 WSTM Mon Jan 14 21:00:00 2002
Third Watch:Transformed 2 7 110 6 CJOH Mon Jan 14 22:00:00 2002

> No
> scheduler
> can do magic...

Nope.  But it will defer Third Watch to 10:00pm and get one of Ally or
ELR at 9.

> that why we still have VCRs!

:-)  Or OpenPVRs that have as many tuners as you can afford to
capture, encode and store from.  Tivo and/or Replay can't do that.

> (I'm about to transfer
> another 6hour VCR tape to the Replay tonight.. man it's nice having a
> 100 hour disk in there now! )

Any idea of the file sizes?  With mp1e I can capture at 640x480 x
2500kb/s and it makes a very acceptable quality 1.1GB/hour file.

> I tried to find a REAMDE or something about OpenPVR.

Yeah, Like I said there is not much there yet.

> What
> platform(s)
> does it run on?

It's C++ so whatever you want to compile it on.

> What video cards are supported?

There is no integrated playback support yet.  Right now it shedules
recordings.  I play back with Mplayer on a Radeon using the VESA
driver to the TV with TV-out.

> I gather you read
> (or
> plan on reading) a XMLTV show listing.

Sure do.

> Getting things back on topic, if you want, TVCHECK and OpenPVR can
> share a show file format. (tvcheck for checking, OpenPVR for
> recording)

That should work.  My show format is very simple:

<program>
  <item title="ER">
  <score>60</score>
  <new></new>
</program>

It was off-the-cuff using xmltv as a starting point.

>  Check out my show.xml for starters.

Looks somewhat the same as mine.  I don't care about time/length.  I
let xmltv tell me that.

>  I plan on adding another
> attribute for recording device id. For you "days" will probably have
> to
> support mmdd and M-F, Weekday, etc.

I don't want to have to know when it's on.  Just record the show
whenever it's on, assuming it has not been seen yet, so "day",
"channel", "hhmm", and "len" would all have to be optional.

I would not be adverse to the user filling those in (through the UI of
course) if they wanted to insist on the date/time to record, but I
want that to be a detail that user does not have to bother with if
she doesn't want to.

b.

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Brian J. Murrell