Win What is a good TV backend for XBMC?
#1
Hello,

what is a good backend for watching live TV with Frodo RC3? I am using DVB-C.

Thanx
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#2
What OS? They are all good.
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#3
(2013-01-21, 14:16)Atomic Zombie Wrote: What OS? They are all good.

A backend for MS Windows 7 64 bit version. I would like to test Frodo RC3 with live TV. I would like to test a simple backend that is not too big or complicated.
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#4
I'm using nextpvr.
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#5
Nextpvr is excellent. What tuner are you using?
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(2013-01-21, 17:08)bry- Wrote: Nextpvr is excellent. What tuner are you using?

I´m using a DVB-C USB stick from Sundtek. This thing works fine under MS Windows and Linux, I use both systems. I will look at nextpvr now!
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#7
Nextpvr is pretty much install and go.
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#8
Hi, i have a question about backend.

So, my situation is: i need backend which will be universal for xbmc and vlc.
Situation: i have home network with xbmc media center and bunch of computers. One stream server. I'm using dvb-t card. We have 5 diferent multiplexes and each one has about 4 tv programs. I need watch on xbmc one program of mplex1 and other users can watch other programs of mplex1 in vlc. Is it possible? i tried MediaPortal and i didn't find this ability.

now i'm using for streaming vlc simple http stream. For switching multiplexes i'm using simple web application and telnet so a can access tv programs like this:

http://streamserver:8080/ct1
http://streamserver:8080/ct2
http://streamserver:8080/ct24
http://streamserver:8080/ct4
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http://streamserver:8080/nova
http://streamserver:8080/prima
.
.
.

what i really want to do is some video on demand backend, which is able to stream all programs of multiplex at the same time when i try to open one of them...
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(2013-01-22, 15:55)vranik Wrote: Situation: i have home network with xbmc media center and bunch of computers. One stream server. I'm using dvb-t card. We have 5 diferent multiplexes and each one has about 4 tv programs. I need watch on xbmc one program of mplex1 and other users can watch other programs of mplex1 in vlc. Is it possible? i tried MediaPortal and i didn't find this ability.
This is possible in NextPVR. You can have users in XBMC watching a channels, while other users are watching channels on the multiplex from VLC. From VLC, you open URLs like http://<server>:8866/live?channel=2, where 2 was the channel number.

You don't need any special configuration. It's the default behaviour.
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#10
This is great. Exactly what i need. Thanks!
But i have some problems in xbmc when i try to switch channel. It's just buffering and TV doesn't start. But i think it could be just temporaly problem. And it is possible to set streaming over internet? I think it could be some ttl settings, or i need specify clients IPs.
Last question: is it possible with nextPVR redistribute other streams from internet?
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#11
Make sure you have the R2 patches from the NextPVR forums.

NextPVR always sends the full bitrate stream, so not well suited to use across the internet unless you've got a very fast internet connection.

No, NextPVR doesn't do redistribution of streams from the internet.

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#12
vranik for restream streams from the internet you can use mythtv I'm using it to restream hls streams.
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#13
The X-NEWA addon for NextPVR can be configured to use NextPVR built in web server's vlc transcoding to send live tv and recordings over the internet at reduced bit rates.

The NetworkRecorder tuner plugin for NextPVR can capture streaming http channels as posted by vannik assuming they are mpeg ts

Martin
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#14
So, i figured out all my problems...streaming over internet is possible by setting
<AllowRemoteStreaming>true</AllowRemoteStreaming>

patches heped switching channels in xbmc. but it is important to copy patches into instalation directory and into users/public/npvr/web/bin directory.

Redistribute http streams is possible too with plugin Network Recorder. But installation is a bit complicated (specialy part with netstream utility). I hope nextpvr will add this feature officialy.

Now i have only one problem with streaming into vlc. I found that is problem with multiple instances. when i watch some channel in vlc and try run another, or same channel in other computer, then streaming into first computer is shuted down and to new one is started. Interesting is, that this makes no effect on xbmc. Even though, when is some channel watched on xbmc, server is blocked for this multiplex...this is great behavior, i want it for vlc and other clients too

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(2013-01-27, 00:27)vranik Wrote: Now i have only one problem with streaming into vlc. I found that is problem with multiple instances. when i watch some channel in vlc and try run another, or same channel in other computer, then streaming into first computer is shuted down and to new one is started. Interesting is, that this makes no effect on xbmc. Even though, when is some channel watched on xbmc, server is blocked for this multiplex...this is great behavior, i want it for vlc and other clients too
It'll behave the way you want if you pass a client identifier on the url you open in vlc. ie, first machine http://<server>:8866/live?channel=2&client=vlc1, second machine might pass "client=vlc2".

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