Unified PVR frontend (DVR/HTPC client GUI with EPG) and Addons API for PVR backends?

Raptylos Wrote:Yes, I'd love to see this as well !

As would I.

ATM, have spent futile hours getting a MythTV back-end working with my various DVB cards - the Windows BDA drivers installed in a matter of seconds but it took 7 hours to get the equivalent Linux drivers to behave for the Tevii S660! So I'll be sticking to a Windoze back-end, esp. as the motherboard of my server doesn't have Linux drivers for its power management functions.

DVBViewer glued to DigiGuide via DABDig has been working solidly for years but only I can set up recordings as it's a bit fiddly for the family to use, so I'm looking at Mediaportal now.

On the other hand, XBMC live is the best thing since... XBMC on the XBOX (which is where I started), so I'd like to stick to that as a front-end with a suitable EPG.

Do you have any noted on getting your Tevii S660 to work in Linux what linux distro did you get it working on and which drivers did you get work in the end. Spent hours with mine and just gave up in the end. This was a couple of months ago so I am hoping things may have changed.

MrRimmer Wrote:As would I.

ATM, have spent futile hours getting a MythTV back-end working with my various DVB cards - the Windows BDA drivers installed in a matter of seconds but it took 7 hours to get the equivalent Linux drivers to behave for the Tevii S660! So I'll be sticking to a Windoze back-end, esp. as the motherboard of my server doesn't have Linux drivers for its power management functions.

DVBViewer glued to DigiGuide via DABDig has been working solidly for years but only I can set up recordings as it's a bit fiddly for the family to use, so I'm looking at Mediaportal now.

On the other hand, XBMC live is the best thing since... XBMC on the XBOX (which is where I started), so I'd like to stick to that as a front-end with a suitable EPG.

TheCableGuy_69 Wrote:Do you have any noted on getting your Tevii S660 to work in Linux what linux distro did you get it working on and which drivers did you get work in the end. Spent hours with mine and just gave up in the end. This was a couple of months ago so I am hoping things may have changed.

Success at last with Ubuntu 11.04 and the following instructions worked perfectly.

any progress to add live tv nativly to xbmc?

mad1993max Wrote:any progress to add live tv nativly to xbmc?

It depends on the backend you are using. See the forum post on main PVR branch maintained by dushmaniac here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=92315 source is here: https://github.com/opdenkamp/xbmc I believe this branch contains a TVHeadEnd add-on.

For an add-on support for MythTV see tsp42's branch (which builds on the dushmaniac's branch above), forum post: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=110694 and source: https://github.com/tsp/xbmc

(2011-06-04 15:25)Raptylos Wrote:  

nicx76 Wrote:hi,

i love this new branch with xbmc as tv frontend, but i miss plans to use the best tv backend software: the "recording service" of dvbviewer. is it planned to use this too?

nicx...

BBkeeeef Wrote:XBMC + DVB Viewer's recording service as a back end would be a match made in heaven.

Yes, I'd love to see this as well !

Me too

I'd love to see Beyond TV as a backend for XBMC PVR... Any chance of that?

Beyond TV does a great job of commercial skipping and has channel data AND channel changing built-in...

It'd be a great candidate as a backend!

I tried really hard to get into MediaPortal/ForTheRecord, but configuring them was too cumbersome and complicated. Beyond TV just WORKS.

The best "recording service" I've found is DVBViewer. No doubt !!!

DVBViewer is without doubt the most stable recording service. It never crashes, unlike the unstable MediaPortal TV Server.

seems to me, that both - DVBViewer (btw. I bought a licence and used the program for a while, the program is okay but not as good as XBMC & tvheadend - and unfortunately not much more stable) & Beyond TV - are commercial apps .. so it would be best if the "companies" write themselves a neat XBMC pvr plugin for their products I don't see a reason why opensource developers should spent time to help others earn money if they could better invest time into improvement of opensource solutions like tvheadend, mythtv or vdr ...