[pvrusb2] Manually pull tv listing info

[Mike Isely]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, rogerx at sdf.org wrote:

> Is there a method to manually pull tv listing data from the hvr-1950?

At the level of the driver it's all just an mpeg stream.  The contents 
are up to whatever app is using it.  There's nothing the driver can do 
to help or hinder such an operation.  You need to ask yourself what apps 
might be able to do that, and the answer to that question would be the 
same regardless of what DTV capture hardware (or capture driver) is 
being used.

  -Mike

> 
> Currently, I'm quite satisfied with setting up a user cron job to record,
> background task, then stop the task after a specified amount of time.
> 
> --- Snip ---
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> mencoder 'dvb://KTVF DT:545028615:8VSB:65:68:4' -really-quiet -of avi -ovc copy
> -oac copy -o ch11_60min-`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M`.mpg &
> 
> sleep 60m
> 
> killall mencoder # should use pidof
> --- Snip ---
> 
> It'd be great if I could grab the listing data myself using bash or whatever.
> Not only this, the huge MythTV prefers to grab the data 24/7 -- doing it myself, I could
> opt to only capture the data for a specified amount of time.
> 
> <shrugs> ... any easy ideas?
> 
> 

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