My MythTV setup is designed to be a purely streaming setup. So, people go into MythWeb and select the channel/recording to stream. However, it would seem that if VLC is streaming from the tuner when a recording starts, the channel will change, and it will fail to record anything leaving behind a 0-byte file.
Is it possible to run a script to run before any recording starts? Or is there some other way to get around this?

Thanks.

How about not be using the tuner when mythTV wants to use it.

Or if you want to stream "live TV" you need to schedule a recording. Once the recording starts you can begin streaming it. Then MythTV will know the tuner is in use.

Well, if I could run a script then that script can kill VLC and the tuner wouldn't be in use.



Thats a rather clunky system, the whole concept is to streamline the process for the end user. Besides, you can have overlapping schedules. So, only one gets recorded.

MythTV is not designed to stream live TV over the Internet. You are using VLC for that which is a seperate application. If you want to "streamline" the process you have to rewrite MythTV to interface with VLC or use the scheduling features already built into MythTV. Personally I think your "kill script" idea is significantly more clunky. Your video stream would suddenly stop with no explination given to the user.

Overlapping schedules are easily taken care of with the priority levels you can set for every scheduled recording. So MythTV will automatically record the show you tell it is most important.