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Contents 1 Description 2 Command Line Options 3 Examples 4 Notes

Description

gmyth-cat loads a mythtv backend recorded file or a livetv channel data and outputs it to the standard output.

Command Line Options

 -?, --help                    Show help options
 -h, --hostname=IP_ADDRESS     Mythtv backend hostname or IP address
 -p, --port=PORT               Mythtv backend port
 -f, --filename=FILE           Recorded file name available in the Mythtv backend
 -c, --channel=CHANNEL         Mythtv channel number

Examples

• Downloads a mythtv recorded file from the server to a local file

 $ gmyth-cat -h 192.168.2.228 -p 6543 -f 1004_20070730105000.nuv > /tmp/output.nuv

• Plays a mythtv channel with mplayer

 $ gmyth-cat -h 192.168.2.228 -p 6543 -c 13 | mplayer -

Notes

If gmyth was compiled with debug enabled, a lot of messages will be shown, but they does not affect the gmyth-cat result.