Allowing Internet Streams as channels in Live TV

I have not tried myself but I think vdr with iptv plugin can handle h264 as well.

(2012-12-07 17:45)FernetMenta Wrote:  I have not tried myself but I think vdr with iptv plugin can handle h264 as well.

"Currently the IPTV plugin has direct support for both multicast UDP/RTP and unicast HTTP MPEG1/2 transport streams."
http://www.saunalahti.fi/rahrenbe/vdr/iptv/

Check out this post: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=146100
The log tells me that a h264 stream was opened. You might want to contact the OP of this thread.

(2012-12-07 21:34)FernetMenta Wrote:  Check out this post: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=146100
The log tells me that a h264 stream was opened. You might want to contact the OP of this thread.

Sorry but the stream was multicast UDP (not HTTP with h264 video stream):
For multicast UDP I use TVheadend.

What is the primary function of the <channelgroups> tag in the xml file? Can we sort channels in groups for easier navigation?

(2012-12-11 16:59)Maniac Wrote:  What is the primary function of the <channelgroups> tag in the xml file? Can we sort channels in groups for easier navigation?

Yes, in fact you can. Though Group Manager in Channel Manager does the same.

Yeah I tried that, I presume that <member>5</member> is the channel number?
I created this for more than 100 channels, they are all grouped corretly in the xml file, but in XMBC channel groups are messed up, some channels are not in the correct group.

I also noticed in the channel manager > Channel Options: EPG Source: Client

Could we in future be able to choose our own source for EPG? This would be awsome

(2012-12-19 16:00)Maniac Wrote:  Could we in future be able to choose our own source for EPG? This would be awsome

Yes, if you write a software for that. Currently pvr.demo supports only static data from its XML for demonstration purposes (this is pvr.demo, after all) - for skinners, translators etc. who would want to see a Live TV interface without having real TV equipment (DVB-cards and such). The same for incorrect grouping.
I guess, the people who wrote this addon did not think it would be used for real.

indeed, i wrote that add-on for demo purposes only, because it was intended to be used as demo environment when no network connection or dv adapter was present, and i've added it to xbmc's repos later (with a couple of changes) so it can be used by skinners without hardware too, without the need to configure anything.

if you need more than this which needs to be configured before it can be used (like integrating an external epg source), then i suggest you copy the add-on, give it another name, and implement the stuff that's needed to get this working. the demo add-on should always work without any configuration and should always present data without any configuration.

Yeah, I know that it's a demo, just wanted to clarify if the EPG source was something from the PVR core in xbmc, not regarding the pvr.demo itself.

But could some of you reply to my main question, regarding channelgroups and members not beeing grouped correctly in XBMC? Is this also a pvr.demo issue or is it on another level?

PS! If I were to "copy" the pvr.demo addon, and implement "some stuff". Is there a tutorial for coding PVR addons in XBMC. Never done it before, but I do know programming (C# & .net).

Thanks