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Lack of Tv tuner support is the missing thing to make XBMC "perfect"
It know it was impossible with the old Xbox, but after the XBMC platform moved to other platforms it could and should be implemented. I really would like to hook up a DVB-xx tuner like floppyDTV to my MAcMini running XBMC.
I hope this will be done in the future, but it's depending on the devs.
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XBMC is already supporting Mythtv Backend as far as i know, dont know about the Mediaportal TV Server maybe that can be used similar. Needs to be implemented in XBMC though.
An own TV Server is not yet happening for xbmc i guess in the near future.
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as far as i know XBMC will become a Frontend, thus means it needs a backend TV-Server to view and record tv.
For now the backend of Mythtv is supported so when you setup a linux based pc running Mythbuntu you can view tv within XBMC as far as i know.
Here you will encounter another problem, the linux drivers for FloppyDTV are still in development. There are beta drivers already though.
In the future i think it might support other tvservers like mediaportal, so you can just use 1 windows based pc and watch television.
For now this is limited to mythtv.
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I really wish there was something a non-coder could do to help. Im currently building my HTPC, but I think ill waith until some PVR is developed for XBMC so ill know exactly what kind of tuner card I will need.
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2008-10-28, 00:00
Hi all!
Have been playing around with Mediaportal for some years now and have gotten it pretty good by now.
Now I want to use XBMC as a client for Mediaportal TV-Server. Have been looking around for some time now but can't find any good solution.
Found the XBMC integrator but it doesn't seem to be working with the TV-Server.
Is it possible and then how to do it?
Thx
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There is a patch on sourceforge for limited integration with TVServer although you would be forced to patch and recompile XBMC in order to test it.
If the patch is in good enough shape I would imagine it´ll be integrated in Atlantis+1.
Cheers,
Tobias
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I'd also love for this feature to be included. Mediaportal is the only program i can get working with my TV tuner. Mediaportal is no substitute for XBMC. It just feels so cobbled together, and XBMC is nicely integrated. Maybe I just don't like windows.
