This looks great, but I can't get to www.misterhouse.net. It seems to be down. Greg David Norwood wrote: > > Included with the latest release of Misterhouse is a PVR script I wrote. > Misterhouse is an open source home automation program written entirely in > Perl. It is a good platform for developing a PVR because it supports a > variety of user input methods including web, voice, IR, X10, e-mail, WAP, > and others. > > v4l_pvr.pl > > 06/30/2002 Created by David Norwood (dnorwood2@xxxxxxxxx) > > This script adds Personal Video Recorder (PVR) functionality to Misterhouse > systems running Linux. > > Features: > > - Automatically records shows that match a list of keywords > - Records shows selected from the TV listings > - Uses FFMPEGrec for recording, MPlayer for playback, and Xawtv for live TV > - Decent video quality on 400 MHz machine, 500MB/hour filesize > - Basic web interface for specifying shows to record, watching recordings > and live TV > > Requirements: > > - misterhouse: http://www.misterhouse.net > - A TV tuner card supported by video4linux > - Optionally, a video card with TVOUT capability > - A kernel that supports v4l1 or v4l2 and a driver for your card (probably > bttv) > RedHat 7.2 was sufficient for me, but you can get the latest here: > http://bytesex.org/bttv/ > - xawtv for watching live TV and changing channels: > http://bytesex.org/xawtv/ > - avifile: http://avifile.sourceforge.net/ > - ffmpeg: http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/ > - nvrec: http://nvrec.sourceforge.net/ > - mplayer for video playback: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/ > - a2x for controlling X windows applications: > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/a2x-voice/a2x-faq.html > > Setup: > > Install and configure all the above software. Copy the following scripts > into your misterhouse > code directory. > > mh/code/public/v4l_pvr.pl > mh/code/bruce/internet_logon.pl > mh/code/bruce/tv_info.pl > > Delete tv_grid.pl from your code directory if you have it. > > Set the following parameters in your private mh.ini file. > > pvr_video_dir=/bigdisk/videos # optional, defaults to > "$config_parms{data_dir}/videos" > html_select_length=9999 # causes web interface to list commands separately > zip_code=91360 # go to http://tv.zap2it.com and enter your zip code... > tv_provider=296974 # select your provider, click View Listings, code will be > in URL > tv_hours=0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22 # ensures show database will be > complete > > Restart misterhouse, browse to http://localhost:8080/mh4, and click on PVR. > > Problems: > > - videos don't play directly on Windows > - videos don't contain index according to mplayer > - zap2it show data only has half hour resolution > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
