[pvrusb2] Q: Timed recording without MythTV

[G Mc.Pherson]

Hi Folks,

I recently picked up a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 (model 29032, rev D2A3)
and after a quick read over Mike's web page, I'm happy to say that
installation was painless and seems to be working relatively well.

Great job on the driver, Mike!

After browsing over the mailing list, I didn't see anyway to time a
recording. "cat /dev/video > filename.mpg" doesn't really lend itself to
recording for a specific period of time. I'm aware MythTV offers that
functionality but it's overkill for my purpose (and I've never had any
luck configuring it).

Is there anyone out there with a simple script or program that will
record for a specified time that could be called from a cron job?

Also a 30 minute show is consuming 1.4 Gbytes, is there anyway to reduce
this. Some of the shows I'll be recording can last upto 3 hours (8.4
GBytes!!)

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GMc <gamcpherson at gmail.com>