[RELEASE] MythBox for XBMC - a MythTV Front-end Python Script for XBMC

Swifty Wrote:Thanks Analogue,
If you require any further testing, logs, etc.. under Windows don't hesitate to shout

Error occurs under XBMC Atlantis 8.10, but works under XBMC SVN Trunk.
README Updated (Windows section) to requires XBMC SVN Trunk.

http://code.google.com/p/mythbox/issues/...id=5&can=1

Thanks for the update, will checkout SVN in the next few days and see how it goes

miked2024 Wrote:for HD capture from a satellite tuner, your only option is the Hauppage HD PVR which captures via component.

...or you can use an r5000HD from Nextcom wireless and record the digital Transport Stream directly from your satellite box via USB with no need for a tuner card at all.

http://www.nextcomwireless.com/R5000/home.htm

It works as a mythTV tuner now thanks to this patch here:

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/4752

Wes

waldo22 Wrote:...or you can use an r5000HD from Nextcom wireless and record the digital Transport Stream directly from your satellite box via USB with no need for a tuner card at all.

http://www.nextcomwireless.com/R5000/home.htm

It works as a mythTV tuner now thanks to this patch here:

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/4752

Wes

For nearly twice the price and voiding the warranty of your Dish/cable receiver; not to mention on dual-tuner STB's having to remember to not schedule recordings on Tuner 1 which it reserves for itself, in return for picture quality even the picky HT nuts at AVSForum can't always distinguish from the analog capture of the Hauppage unit.

The HD PVR isn't perfect but you'd have to be pretty insane to choose an R5000 over it to record HD satellite and cable feeds.

Hi All

This is a great Script, but i have some problem.
Ubuntu 8.04- Xbmc Final Atlantis
Mythubuntu 0.21

When i watch a recorded program, then i stop it, Mythbackend Crash.

There is some settings in Mythtv that i have to insert ?

Thx and sorry for my english

Also using this to some benefit. Right now the main problem I'm encountering is extremely slow navigation. Once I highlight a recorded program and select it, I have to wait several seconds before it continues to the next screen. This, by the way, is on an XBMC installation running mythbackend on the same machine.

I also cannot get smooth playback of HD content, but that's the player's fault, not the plugin's.

In short, thanks! Looking forward to updates!

Hi,

im running XBMC for windows and would love to watch live-tv from XBMC. Running WMC for that purpose today but since my first enconter with this fantastic software i cant wait to make a terminal switch and turn my back to WMC once and for all.

However, perhaps this is a stupid question from a newbe, but how do you run mythtv backend on a windows machine? Could someone please point me in the right direction how to do this? I have tried to run Ubuntu but run into some hardware problems that i could not solve....

//Marcus

macardi Wrote:However, perhaps this is a stupid question from a newbe, but how do you run mythtv backend on a windows machine?

Short answer: you can't. MythTV is a Linux application. Long answer: there is evidently a Windows port of MythTV, but judging by the wiki page on how to compile and build it, you'd be much better off with a Ubuntu install and hammering out your hardware problems.

theophile Wrote:Short answer: you can't. MythTV is a Linux application. Long answer: there is evidently a Windows port of MythTV, but judging by the wiki page on how to compile and build it, you'd be much better off with a Ubuntu install and hammering out your hardware problems.

I may be mistaken, but I'm fairly sure only the frontend has been ported so far.. so unfortunatley you still need to have tuners that work under linux to get your backend working.

One thought: can the MythTV player be launched independently of the MythTV frontend? If so, it might be better for MythBox to launch recorded programs in the MythTV player since it is configured to better handle the playback.