VLC based Personal Video Recorder (PVR or DVR)
Posted: 27 Oct 2014 00:57
TitanTV provides a method to select broadcast shows (OTA, Cable, and/or Satellite) from their listings to be recorded or watched in real time. Unfortunately VLC does not have a method to use this information. I have written an PUBLIC DOMAIN application to resolve that minor inconvenience. 
The program has been tested on Windows 7 and Windows XP with a Silicon Dust tuner.
I would like to know if it works with other tuner hardware.
The Application consist of three small executable programs and an INI file:
1) kw-pvr-cfg.exe
This program builds the required INI file for the application. There are two field values that the program can not resolve: your time time zone and your tuner hardware. These must be manually entered. There is information provided in the file kw-pvr-ini.txt to assist you in this task.
2) kw-pvr.exe
This program is run to process the TitanTV files and scheduled the programs to be recorded … or to build a VLC playlist if the program is run in PlayNow mode. This program can be added to the task schedule as a repeated task to automate the process.
3) kw-pvr-run.exe
This program is triggered by the OS task scheduler at the appropriate time to read the show's XML file and launch VLC to record the show. Its principal purpose is to circumvent the 255 command line character limit of the Microsoft's task scheduler.
The program (and VB source code) are available from: http://www.keywild.com/kw-pvr/KeyWild_pvr_index.html
TitanTV.com is a free service for US TV broadcasts.
enjoy
The program has been tested on Windows 7 and Windows XP with a Silicon Dust tuner.
I would like to know if it works with other tuner hardware. The Application consist of three small executable programs and an INI file:
1) kw-pvr-cfg.exe
This program builds the required INI file for the application. There are two field values that the program can not resolve: your time time zone and your tuner hardware. These must be manually entered. There is information provided in the file kw-pvr-ini.txt to assist you in this task.
2) kw-pvr.exe
This program is run to process the TitanTV files and scheduled the programs to be recorded … or to build a VLC playlist if the program is run in PlayNow mode. This program can be added to the task schedule as a repeated task to automate the process.
3) kw-pvr-run.exe
This program is triggered by the OS task scheduler at the appropriate time to read the show's XML file and launch VLC to record the show. Its principal purpose is to circumvent the 255 command line character limit of the Microsoft's task scheduler.
The program (and VB source code) are available from: http://www.keywild.com/kw-pvr/KeyWild_pvr_index.html
TitanTV.com is a free service for US TV broadcasts.
enjoy