2013-12-10, 14:07
I am trying out XBMC and WMC as a possible candidate to replace my BTV system. BTV works great, its just old and doesn't have a lot of the neat features XBMC has. I have 3 dual TV cards in my BTV system - Hauppauge 2250's, 5 regular cable and 1 input from the set top box w/ USB-UIRT. I have something like 230+ shows set to record new episodes for me and the family ( this is what I would like to emulate with XBMC). As my first test I have been trying to get XBMC up using WMC as the back end. Live TV is a necessity. I just installed the latest WMC server and add-on that was posted on the 8th of this month. That is working reasonably fine, and pretty much works. The new system with XBMC just has 1 Hauppauge 2250 in it, with only 1 input enabled for simplicity sake while testing to see if its a good option for me.
One of the first problems I am having is I got an error message pop up that said something to the effect that I couldn't record something due to restrictions - I was not able to copy it very accurately because the pop up vanished - but something to the effect that the broadcaster was disallowing me to record their program, It was just a randomly chosen news program, I am able to watch it live.
I am guessing this is a "feature" of WMC, I can record anything with BTV without issue, so I'm guessing it has to be a WMC issue.
1) is there a way to avoid this? If its not avoidable, that pretty much removes WMC as a viable backend for me.
2) is there a better back end I should look at?
3) is there a way to see upcoming recordings I have enabled, or a list of all the shows I have set to record? I couldn't find this in the XBMC menu's.
Sorry if my questions are dumb, this program is very new to me and vastly different then BTV.
One of the first problems I am having is I got an error message pop up that said something to the effect that I couldn't record something due to restrictions - I was not able to copy it very accurately because the pop up vanished - but something to the effect that the broadcaster was disallowing me to record their program, It was just a randomly chosen news program, I am able to watch it live.
I am guessing this is a "feature" of WMC, I can record anything with BTV without issue, so I'm guessing it has to be a WMC issue.
1) is there a way to avoid this? If its not avoidable, that pretty much removes WMC as a viable backend for me.
2) is there a better back end I should look at?
3) is there a way to see upcoming recordings I have enabled, or a list of all the shows I have set to record? I couldn't find this in the XBMC menu's.
Sorry if my questions are dumb, this program is very new to me and vastly different then BTV.