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2009-05-27, 13:44
Hi all,
i'm working for a few weeks in a young proyect about possibility of viewing DVB-T channels into XBMC with no streaming from another computer (Only PC), i mean XBMC will manage DVB-T card.
Into the first version I want only to see channels into my LCD TV. Later, I want to make something like DVD/HD Recorders, a recording calendar that will record channel you want and put them into xVID o Divx files.
What do you think about that?. Must be this a plugin or part of XBMC core?. I think i will need some help.
Now I am doing for linux, but could be implemented for another OS.
Best regards to all and good job, you are the best.
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Have you considered focusing your efforts on the existing pvr branch which will provide a plugin architecture for programs such as mythtv, mediaportal and vdr.
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2009-05-27, 16:17
(This post was last modified: 2009-05-27, 16:20 by ljpaff.)
Yes, but on those cases you are third party application dependent. I mean, bugs into third party releases (memory leaks, cpu slow, etc..) could have any kind of impact into XBMC and of course, probably, needs of changing XBMC Factory code, and much important thing is that you don't have "full control" of third party applications.
Best regards.
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I'd like to see something like this in xbmc. In my opinion a full media center should have the ability to show and record dvb(-t) natively. (It is espescially missing for Linux since there is already something like that with MediaPortal for windows).
This would have to be built as a part of the core I think.
My question is why would I use mythtv (for example), which does 70% of the things that xbmc is already capable of, when all I need is the recording feature? There are lots of threads with people asking for how to integrate mythtv or vdr or the likes into xbmc and how to adapt the look and feel, use them as a plugin, or launch them and return to xbmc.
And then there is the problem of reintegrating the recordings into the xbmc database.
I guess this problem will improve a lot with the unified pvr but I'm asking myself if a direct implementation of dvb-t wouldn't be simpler (at least for the users).
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Any news about this feature?
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there will be no integrated backends any time soon.
you can use one of the backends: tvheadend, vdr, myth, mediaportal or 4therecord. don't know the state of the 4therecord addon though.
it's not in mainline xbmc yet, so you'll have to use the packages or sources from my sig.
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