Schedule HackTV with iCal by Erica Sadun 02/02/2005
There's never enough time in the day to watch all those great TV shows you want to see. Turning your computer into a personal video recorder, or "PVR," has become all the rage. A Macintosh PVR can accomplish many things. At the most basic, it lets you time-shift your shows to watch them at a convenient hour-when you're ready to watch, not when network executives think you should be watching. In addition, you might record a show for a friend, and then ftp it over, or perhaps send it in segments through e-mail to a Gmail account. You could even let your Mac record all the great shows you think you should watch and then just trash the results. Even if you didn't see the show, your Mac did-and it probably enjoyed it more than you would have anyway. No matter why you want to use your Mac to record TV, HackTV (with a little help from iCal) provides a free and simple automatic video recording solution. This is the second article in a series about watching TV with Apple's (free) HackTV utility. In the first article, I showed readers how to connect their TVs and other video sources to their Macintoshes using FireWire and watch it with HackTV. Then I discussed how to record that video to disk. This article continues from there. You're about to learn how to convert your Macintosh to a low-end but working PVR. You'll discover how to control HackTV through Apple's GUI scripting extensions for AppleScript (at least as much as Mac OS X will let you) and how to schedule your recordings with iCal. After mastering the skills in this article, you'll be able to walk away from your Mac and let it handle any recording tasks for you. ... http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2005/02/02/hacktv.html Reply with a "Thank you" if you liked this post. _______________________________________________ MEDIANEWS mailing list medianews@twiar.org To unsubscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
