[mythtvnz] Streaming ShineTV

[Nick & Ann Read]

Nick Rout wrote:
> alternatively try this:
>
> make a file somewhere in your mythvideos file structure, called shine.avi, like:
>
> touch /myth/video/shine.avi
>
> Go into video setup and set a custom play command for Shine.avi, something like this:
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> mplayer -fs -zoom (whatever your other standard mplayer parameters are) -playlist http://www.r2.co.nz/meta/shinetv-384.asx
>
> When you want to watch shine, go into mythvideo and select Shine.
>
>   
OK that works great. What's more, I can manually record it to a file 
like this:

mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv -channels 2 -playlist 
http://www.r2.co.nz/meta/shinetv-384.asx -dumpstream -dumpfile 
shinerecord.asf

Does anyone know of an easy way to automate this? I guess I could set up 
a cron job to start it, but how would I stop it? (Manually I use 
Ctrl-C). In an ideal world I would also insert it into the recordings 
folder/database...

I don't suppose anyone has created a software 'tuner' that would look 
like a capture card to myth but is actually capturing a stream from the 
internet...? Seems to me this is going to be an increasingly popular way 
to get your tv in future. I have a bunch of streams set up in XBMC 
(xbox) and they are quite watchable except during peak internet hours 
(5-11pm).