Public Domain Software
Author: Lewis Balentine
“Engineering is the art of planning and forethought.”
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KeyWild PVR |
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Public Domain Software Author: Lewis Balentine “Engineering is the art of planning and forethought.” |
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The author makes no representation or warranty, either expressed or implied, with respect to the data files and/or software, their quality, accuracy, or fitness for any specific application. Therefore the author shall have no liability to any person or any entity with respect to any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to have been caused directly or indirectly by the use of the data files and/or software. This includes, but is not limited to, interruption of service, loss of data, loss of consulting or anticipatory profits or consequential damages from the use of these data files and/or software. All files unless otherwise noted are the original work product of the author. Unless otherwise noted these files are placed into the Public Domain for the unrestricted use by anyone for any purpose. Placing these files in the public domain shall in no way be construed as an obligation of the author (or his heirs and/or assigns) to maintain the web site, web pages, files, data or software. Further it shall in no way limit the author’s (or his heirs and/or assigns) options to make, produce or use versions of the software, data files, CAD objects or other material posted under the URL in any other commercial or non-commercial venture. In the event of a legal dispute the court is requested to use a “reasonable person’s” interpretation of the “clear intent” of this disclaimer. The use of these data files and/or software constitutes acceptance of this disclaimer. |
“No good deed goes unpunished.” Oscar Wilde
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October 2014 KW-PVR is a personal video recorder based on TittanTV.com show listings and the VLC media player. TitanTV provides a method to select broadcast shows (OTA, Cable, or Satellite) from their listings to be recorded or watched in real time. Unfortunately VLC does not have a method to use this information. This application is my resolution to that minor inconvenience. 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 application has been tested on Windows XP and Windows 7 professional. It is assumed to run on Windows Vista and Windows 8. The INI file options have been made extremely flexible such that it will hopefully work with further upgrades to the Microsoft OS. The user may also configure the use any valid combination of VLC CLI (command line interface) options. The application supports the use of a user specified post-processing command as well. Please see the file “kw-pvr-ini.txt” for more information including command line options. This application will NOT run correctly under the Linux Wine environment because of the lack of the program “schtasks.exe” in that environment. As the application does everything that I want there are no upgrades planned at this time. |
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Standard Setup |
This is the standard setup produced by Microsoft Visual Studio. It will create the required directory, install the required files, make an appropriate entries in the uninstall information and menu system. (1.5 Mbytes) |
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Minimal Files |
This contains only the three program files and the documentation text file. This is for individuals that already have the VB6 runtime installed and do not wish to use the Microsoft setup program. (98 KBytes) |
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Source Code |
The application was developed in Microsoft Visual Basic 6 (a.k.a. Visual Studio 98) because compiled VB6 program run on all the target OS environments from XP forward (without the need to download a specific version Net Frame works). There is nothing exotic about the program code. It can probably be ported to the latest version of visual studio with very little effort. I might even be able to be ported to Vbscript . Porting it to GAMBAS would be a bit of a challenge because there are a lot of Global Variables. (79 Kbytes) |
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VB6 Run Time |
This is the standard setup produced by Microsoft Visual Studio that installs a “test program” for VB6 and all of the run-time controls provided in the VB6 Professional version. I prefer this method rather than having to go through an install for each VB6 program that I create (see minimal files above). The Microsoft EULA and REDIST.TXT are included in this package. (14.2 Mbytes) |
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