[RELEASE] XBMC TV using MediaPortal TVserver (XBMP-TV Script)

Plug-in is fantastic!! Awesome work & working well here in the land of OZ
Great step forward with TV/PVR Integration win XBMC in the Windows Format

[I think I emulate the MythTV layer

XBMC can handle the MythTV Protocol. Since my plugin CAN emulate this, you won't have to install a XBMC plugin AND it will always integrate nicely in any skin!

We can't use Unified PVR at the moment, since the project is "dead" (no active developers). Hope to get something working fast ]

Edit: it isn't a protocol (though it's called a protocol)! It uses a DB connection (etc. etc.) to get it all working... Sucks big time!

XiniX88 Wrote:[I think I emulate the MythTV layer

XBMC can handle the MythTV Protocol. Since my plugin CAN emulate this, you won't have to install a XBMC plugin AND it will always integrate nicely in any skin!

We can't use Unified PVR at the moment, since the project is "dead" (no active developers). Hope to get something working fast ]

Edit: it isn't a protocol (though it's called a protocol)! It uses a DB connection (etc. etc.) to get it all working... Sucks big time!

What does that mean, that it not going to work?

The plugin is not working yet (did not had the time to try it more yet) but I love the plugin allready

AndreStarTrek Wrote:What does that mean, that it not going to work?

The plugin is not working yet (did not had the time to try it more yet) but I love the plugin allready

That means there still isn't a way to integrate it without writing a script/plugin. It doesn't mean I can't find another way, but I searched for a nice way to integrate it in XBMC. XBMC has some great projects like unified PVR and the mythtv protocol that will allow me to integrate it in XBMC, but the mythtv protocol isn't a protocol, but a script and the unified PVR project is far from finished.

So I have to create a script my own (which will cost me loads of time).

XiniX88 Wrote:That means there still isn't a way to integrate it without writing a script/plugin. It doesn't mean I can't find another way, but I searched for a nice way to integrate it in XBMC. XBMC has some great projects like unified PVR and the mythtv protocol that will allow me to integrate it in XBMC, but the mythtv protocol isn't a protocol, but a script and the unified PVR project is far from finished.

So I have to create a script my own (which will cost me loads of time).

Just to prevent double work (for a Unified PVR plugin), here a pre-announcement of my MediaPortal PVR plugin for XBMC (pvrtesting2 branch).

See my website for some screenshots and the current status:
http://www.scintilla.utwente.nl/~marcelg/xbmc/

Most things are working. I am currently testing and cleaning up my code to prepare a submission to alwinus for the pvrtesting branch.

Lists Channels fine in XBMC, when viewing a channel it keeps relisting all the channels. Im at a loss, any ideas thx inadvance ?

Quote:--
CHANNEL : 70;TOPUP Anytime4
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CHANNEL : 51;Unknown 3EB0
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Handling command; IsTimeshifting
Handling command; CloseConnection
Connection closed
Connection complete, listening for new connection..
New Connection! Not listening for any new connections
Correct protocol, connection accepted!
Handling command; TimeshiftChannel
rtsp://192.168.1.65/stream1.0 << TIMESHIFT url
PlayChannel result : rtsp://192.168.1.65/stream1.0
Handling command; CloseConnection
Connection closed
Connection complete, listening for new connection..
New Connection! Not listening for any new connections
Correct protocol, connection accepted!
Handling command; ListChannels
CHANNEL : 12;BBC ONE
--
CHANNEL : 13;BBC TWO

yahooo this is what i have been waiting for for like a million years =)
just wanted this post to be a big thanks for a nice job.
and it works fine, tried with mediaportal up and the plugin even told me what channels i could not watch.

margro Wrote:Just to prevent double work (for a Unified PVR plugin), here a pre-announcement of my MediaPortal PVR plugin for XBMC (pvrtesting2 branch).

See my website for some screenshots and the current status:
http://www.scintilla.utwente.nl/~marcelg/xbmc/

Most things are working. I am currently testing and cleaning up my code to prepare a submission to alwinus for the pvrtesting branch.

Do you have any release date?

This will be a joyful day with all the plug-ins that are coming out for MediaPortal TVserver.

Maybe a race, the first one that brings MediaPortal TVserver to XBMC with al it glory. Just joking of course , just waited a long time that this is happening and I think I am not alone on this.

After lurking the forum for rougly a year, I registered to say you're a god.

I've been fooling around with this because the analog cable signal where I live is _extremely_ poor, so I needed digital TV. Now the only possibility here is DVB-T, but that's all PayTV and needs CAM cards. My analog card would work under MythTV but a DVB-T tuner with CAM won't. I had to use MediaPortal, but then XBMC wouldn't support that. Only solution I could come up with was a set-top box, controlled by a MythTV box running Linux (as it can't connect to PCI cards while running from a VM, it had to be a physical second machine), then transport that output to the Linux box over composite, and then over the net to xbmc. This offcourse sucks.

Well anyway, not too interesting. I can't test this stuff right now as I don't have a normal PC around anymore (only laptops) where I can plug in a tuner. In about a week, I'm getting myself a new HTPC and this plugin will be the first thing I'm going to test. As I'm a Python developer, I might be able to help you out where necessary.


Edit: I see it's running in the Confluenze skin, that's sweet!

AndreStarTrek Wrote:Do you have any release date?

I will try to put my patches (against a specific svn version of the pvrtesting2 branch) online within one week.

They are not yet suitable for the latest version because I'm having problems with the recent ffmpeg update in svn . The previous version (also used for 9.11) had no sound for the MediaPortal rtsp streams (which I could fix with a small patch), but now I see that streams sometimes start and sometimes just don't play but do after a retry.