Colossus command line control?

[ktige]

Can anyone please recommend an efficient way to control the Colossus through command line? Would VLC be an optimal solution? I posted some VLC code below.

I have hundreds of hours of HD programming I want to capture off my DVR...so the Colossus will be running non-stop for weeks. I would like to have the Colossus consume as little resources as possible while running in the background.

WinTV and ArcSoft TME do not work. Over the past 10 months I have found them to be plagued with problems that I cannot resolve...they will capture for 1-4 hours and then freeze, crash, etc. Sometimes the audio does not track right. NextPVR has been working so far without problems, but it would still be nice to use a command line solution.

I would like to simply command the Colossus to capture the input feed and output to .ts or .m2ts with input audio config within a specified time frame. Any leads? Thank you.


http://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_command-line_help

URL syntax:
file:///path/file Plain media file
http://host[:port]/file HTTP URL
ftp://host[:port]/file FTP URL
mms://host[:port]/file MMS URL
screen:// Screen capture
dvd://[device] DVD device
vcd://[device] VCD device
cdda://[device] Audio CD device
udp://[[<source address>]@[<bind address>][:<bind port>]]
UDP stream sent by a streaming server
vlc://pause:<seconds> Pause the playlist for a certain time
vlc://quit Special item to quit VLC

[Robo_Raver]

Post your question on both the http://shspvr.com/ and http://www.avsforum.com/f/26/home-theater-computers Forums and I am sure it will be answered by the software engineers ;-)

[Deanjo]

There is a commandline capture utility here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/babg...lossusCapture/

It is opensource and works well.