Using a recording source other than listed?

[hdskifreak]

Hi Everyone,

I don't know if this information is on the develpoment docs or not. I am looking for a way to trigger a recording using an external program.

For example, I am lucky enough to have an Motorola HD tuner with a Firewire port that lets me capture MPeg2 stream using my PC and programs like DHVSTool, DVHSCap, etc. It would ve "very nice" if I could schedule and manage these recording from the GBPVR interace. Right now, I have to manually schedule these with the respective program, "pull" them into GBPVR via the "Video Library" section, and watch them.

I Got the XRecord plugin in hopes that it had the capability to send recording commands to VLC (which would have been sweet), but it seems it uses VLC just for transcoding.
I'm still very hopefuly that XRecord will solve my timeslot season records woes once and for all... I'm really tired of having tiimeslot recording entries in the DB that span 4 (or is it 3) hours regardless of the program length!

Is there something like a "null" source that could be registered as a placeholder to make this trigger Idea work? Any pointers would be most appreciated.

Best Regards,

HDSkiFreak

[coollavalamp]

hdskifreak et al.

I'm trying the accomplish the same thing- I've got a Motorola 6200 with firewire enabled. Has anyone figured this out?

Thanks!