gshowtv

Once more I reinstalled my whole system, just because this is so much fun. Because there is nothing better than a clean new install. And all went smoothly, the new debian installer really does what it is supposed to do: install. After some three hours everything was just dandy - except that I hadn't saved my mythtv configuration - which is a pain in the ass because you have to figure out the channels yourself here in Norway.

So I was looking for a more lightweight alternative, which does not force a complete webserver and a database (mysql) upon me. I stumled upon gshowtv, which also supports xmltv and has a nifty interface to use every possible recording application.

This is my setup now - trying to remain lightweight.

A helper script in Perl translates between gshowtv's pvr interface and xawtv's streamer, which does the actual recording.
It also takes care of queuing the recording jobs with the atd.
And it writes some kind of logfile, which in turn is read by gshowtv to display the recordings.
Finally, it recodes the large avis which are produced by streamer into a format better suited for my kiss dp-600

All this is done in three scripts: