HK Digital TV recording/streaming scripts

ksng

This is an update of the scripts I posted before:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/h24uo7

Reasons for updating:
1.  Found latest VLC from git no long works with 'vlc -' to play the stream from STDIN. As a workaround, I've modified it to 'vlc fd://0 ...'. This functions the same - to read stream input from STDIN, only different syntax being used;
2. I've recently re-installed my scripts to 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10 and found the readme.txt a bit difficult to follow. I've improved it to add actual commands to be typed in, instead of just making general descriptions.

Still the installation is a bit complicated, but once successfully installed, it is easy to use. Actually the background scripts are started automatically on machine startup. Watching TV is just by 2 clicks: first click to start a not-so-good-looking GUI window, and 2nd click is to select the button of the desired TV channel. There's good feature that you can watch different TV channels (of the same carrier frequency if you've got only one DMB-TH adapter) on different Linux/Windows PCs on your home network.

chancho

can your script do some checking. such as checking for cgi installation, perl installation, scaning channels, vlc and mplayer installation ?

ksng

Currently installation is manual, which is mainly the copying of scripts, and manual editing of the config file tvapps.conf according to user's own preference, e.g. directory to hold the recorded files, which media player to play which TV channel, etc. Perhaps there can be enhancement in the future to add a setup script to perform the installation.

ksng

Below is my latest version:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/bxtkv8
It is functionally the same as the previous version (except that the record start/end events are logged into a log file, record.log, in the recording output directory).
Major improvement is that there's now a 'setup.pl' script to perform installation. It checks and reports what software packages (xine, vlc, mplayer, dvb-apps, dvbtune, apache2, etc, and several perl modules) are missing, and if everything OK, performing setting up of the scripts, 'tvapps' user, etc.
Instruction is in the INSTALL file.

[ 本帖最後由 ksng 於 2009-12-5 11:59 編輯 ]

samiux

原帖由 ksng 於 2009-12-5 11:58 發表
Below is my latest version:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/bxtkv8
It is functionally the same as the previous version (except that the record start/end events are logged into a log file, record.log, in ...

Thanks.  I need to update my blog also.