<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>> I've used VB a fair bit also but I don't think it's a good idea to rely<br>
> on something which isn't pretty standard in Ubuntu for portability<br>
> reasons. Turns out sql in bash is really simple. Just echo the sql<br>
> commands through a pipe to mysql and catch the results. Dead easy. :-)<br>
> Hardest thing will be understanding which tables need updating.<br>
> Recordedseek and recordedmarkup are the ones I know of so far.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>If you have the appetite to learn a bit of Ruby, Nick Ludlam has done some excellent work on an easy-to-use Ruby API implementation for MythTV:</div>
<div><a href="http://github.com/nickludlam/ruby-mythtv" target="_blank">http://github.com/nickludlam/ruby-mythtv</a></div><div><br></div><div>I originally contributed some work to add support for 0.23, and have just pushed up support for Myth protocol version # 23056 to my fork:</div>
<div><a href="http://github.com/jonathanhoskin/ruby-mythtv" target="_blank">http://github.com/jonathanhoskin/ruby-mythtv</a></div><div><br></div><div>The Ruby API doesn't have currently support for querying the recordedmarkup table, but it would be straight-forward to pick that up through ActiveRecord.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Whatever language you use, best of luck - the Myth backend stack is a scary place.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>