[LINUX] HOW-TO get Live TV with VDR working in XBMC for Linux

Is there a way for vdr to encode in h.264

Hi all,
also i tryed to use with Dharma streamdev, Tvheadend and Vnsi and just Vnsi is more stable solution to watch tv with xbmc.
Unfortunatelly it does'n still support DTS audio that is used by some HD channels. I tryed to ask for support here but i haven't response for now.

@hman:
maybe it helps if you ask in active topics and not bump old topics.

I have installed the things in https://launchpad.net/~lars-opdenkamp/+a...lter=lucid
but I cant get it to work.
It cannot find my HTS-TVHeadend server.
Is there any configuration I have missed?

@cAizer
this topic is (or better: was) for VDR. post your question here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=51945

also, like I said multiple times now (and as is in the package description): this is possibly unstable.

use https://launchpad.net/~lars-opdenkamp/+archive/xbmc-pvr

edit:
and post your debug log next time please.

@dushmaniac
hi dushmaniac, as you know i would like to use vdr backend and xbmc as frontend. I used pvrtesting2 before dharma. when dharma released i switch to dharma. I tryed to use streamdev because it should support dts audio (many HD channels have it), but i had success with vnsi plugin and now with dharma and vdr 1.7.16 this solution is quite stable but don't support dts audio.

do you know if is planned dts support in vnsi ?

do you know if dharma +streamdev is stable as dharma + vnsi ?

how can i build and use correctlly streamdev with vdr 1.7.16 and xbmc ?

many, many thanks for responses

sorry, I'm not using vdr myself.

@dushmaniac
ok, could you recommend the best way, for you, to see TV (included HD channels with DTS audio) using XBMC as frontend ?
i started to try also TVHeadend, i needed to add channels group manually for some channels and i saw also that baud max value is 45000000 but for some channels value is more than 50000000.
After i launch channel mapping and now i still waiting for end... at now XBMC say me that can't use device, probably is busy from mapping.

Thanks
Armando B.

I'm using tvheadend myself, which works nearly perfectly here.

To let it scan for channels, go to the web page http://yourserver:9981/ and go to the configuration tab. click on tv adapters there and select your adapter. click on "add dvb network by location" and provide your details.

enable the "autodetect muxes" and "idle scanning" options and fill in your NIT network id (your provider normally has that number written down in a manual).

wait until "muxes waiting for initial scan" is 0 and press "map dvb services to channels". when that finished, your backend's basic setup should be ready.

now head to xbmc, go to system -> addons -> pvr -> tvheadend. click configure and fill in your server's details. save and enable the addon.

now head to system -> pvr and enable the pvr manager.

Hello
I use VDR and i'm trying to integrate it with XBMC.
VNSI and streamdev works, but, as it was said before, it's unstable. Sometimes it simply crash (what is funny - it says I don't have sound card so it crash...)
I accidentally deleted VNSI plugin and couldn't find a way to add it other then reinstall of XBMC

I use pvrinput plugin in VDR - this plugin allow to use analog TV card (card gives mpeg2 compressed stream). In VDR everything works ok - channels are available and playable. With streamdev it works too. Hovewer with VNSI plugin analog channels don't works - there is some video (not black screen or error), but looks like encrypted or badly decoded, blurred trash on the scrren.
I suspect that VDR doesn't transcode stream and send it just like analog card produce it, and XBMC can't decode it or something is missing in that stream. But with streamdev everything works ok....