I'll have to check out that project to see if it streamlines what I do. Right now I have a two step process, but it is manual so not ideal:
- I enter this command in Terminal on the Mac (I've already installed FFMPEG), for example, if I want to record for 2 hours and ten minutes, from my HDMI encoder at IP address 192.168.7.152, to a file named mymovie.mp4
ffmpeg -t 02:10:00 -i http://192.168.7.152/0.ts mymovie.mp4
- I start playing content on the streaming device attached to the encoder with IP address of 192.168.7.15. (Let's say I want to record a movie from Amazon Prime. I remote into the encoder's streaming stick using VLC, start Amazon Prime, find the content, and start playing the content).
It's not an automatic process at all, so I'll definitely check out ah4channels, which I hadn't heard of previously. Where can it be found? I came up empty in a Google search, and it is only mentioned twice in these forums, as best I can tell.
(By the way, if anybody knows how to split my post off to its own topic, feel free to do so. I don't want to sidetrack this great project of @turtletank)