My recent trials with the recording aspect of Freevo has led me to the conclusion that in order to do *serious* recording within Freevo a better backend will be needed. I know one of the goals of Freevo is to build an out-of-box application, but for those of us yearning for reoccuring schedules, etc. I think something more advanced is needed.
A new backend already exists. :) It is a client / server interface and the server runs stanalone, listening on the network. This thing (src/tv/record_server.py) handles things like reoccuring schedules. I assume you mean something like favorites or 'season pass'. Actually I think the method of recoring you use now (record_daemon.py from cron) has support for that too.
I think I'm going to build something with a MySQL backend that allows people to always record a show at a specific time on specific days. My thinking is that this will require Apache+MySQL along with a scripting language (I'm proficient in PHP so I may go that route) - this side project would also require a alternate plugin for scheduling shows that put data into the MySQL database instead of the current flat file structure.
MySQL has been talked about before and most of us agree that it is overkill and is unneccessary overhead. Aubin has been developing some neat stuff based on something called sqlite and that provides excelent database capabilities with no need for a dataserver.
This week I would like to integrate the new record_client/server stuff into the main Freevo (TV) interface (the webserver already uses it). When I say 'this week' I mean it this time, :) I will shortly send another email about it to the devel list so we can talk about any issues with it. I also need to write some docs for it. You may find some outdated screenshots at: http://ettin.danicar.net/freevo
-Rob
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