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

Thanks guys. Out of interest, does it work OK when fast forwarding/rewinding the file. It almost completely locks up on my machine.

I actually did a completely clean install last week on the revo just so I could get xbmc working properly. I haven't installed any codecs or anything that doesn't come with windows by default. Seems strange though that it's only these files that are causing me a problem.

I'll try and dig a little deeper and see if I can find anything out, but I'm feeling a bit stumped right now!

@codex70 My forwarding / rewinding works perfectly (sorry!) - that said my standard windows media center remote Rewind Button doesn't work at all with XBMC - that's something i need to fix.

If anyone has a keyboard.xml file that's set up to mimic the 'standard' grey remote functions I'd kill for a copy of it! (particularly "Guide" = EPG / "Recorded TV" = Videos etc)

> I actually did a completely clean install last week on the revo

Ugh! I'd probably be looking at the MediaPortal (guess that's what you're using right?) TV Server config. My back and front end are on the same computer (i don't stream to anything else) and if that's the only difference we've got it's got to be a setting in there somewhere.. maybe.. :-) Hope that helps.

Right, just for anyone who's interested, or perhaps someone's got some ideas that could make things even better.

I was using ffmpeg with mediaportal under xbmc for both the server machine and the client. I've now switched the server to use tsreader and it plays perfectly. The client machine won't work using tsreader (I'm sure this has been covered before, but it's a fairly long thread, so don't shoot me if it has). Using ffmpeg, the files seems to be streamed from the server whether or not the streaming setting is checked under the pvr client settings. This is what seems to be causing me the problems.

Now the interesting this is that if I add the recorded tv folder to the videos sources, the recorded tv files play perfectly on the client machine as well. In the short term this obviously helps with the issue, and I'm sure this is something that they're working on. The only thing I was interested to know was whether the ffmpeg would work better if ffdshow was installed, or whether I'm barking up the wrong tree.

Sorry to go on about this, but it may help someone else.

Hi all,
Sorry for re-posting my questions (post #599), but I have not received any feedback.

I have been trying the Dharma PVR patched build (the latest two 18.12.10 and 23.01.11) since December. It's definitely great and works with both SD and HD streams.

The application works ok, but I'm still stuck on a few things. Here they are:
- switching or zapping between channels is slow (btw. 5 and 10 secs at least)
- the first time I switch from 3rd channel to 4th channel (RAI 3 to Rete 4 for me) I get the same issue described by whufclee in post #598. If I then stop and restart the TV stream once, this does not happen any more.
- I have enabled all the EPG plugins in the Media Portal TV Server, but I cannot get any EPG info on XBMC. I'm located in Italy

My setup is using an ASRock Core 100-HT BD with core i3 processor and integrated HD audio/video, Win 7 64-bit, the latest patched XBMC PVR with the TS reader, media portal TV Server 1.1.2, Avermedia A835 DVB-T USB stick.

Note that in Media Portal channel switching is ok as you would expect from a PC based TV tuner.

Many thanks again in advance for any help you could provide.

Ciao
Andreacom

Been playing around with this, seems to be working well. I've got one question about adding recorded tv from mediaportal to the tv show library. Is there an easy way to add one off recordings, or is there a media manager that can pull in the XML info stored by mediaportal and convert for use with xbmc. Ii know this may be a bit off topic, so if it needs a new thread let me know, and I have tried the search but couldn't find anything that helps.

>..I've got one question about adding recorded tv from mediaportal to the tv show library. Is there an easy way to add one off recordings, or is there a media manager that can pull in the XML info stored by mediaportal and convert for use with xbmc.

Hi Codex70 - don't have an answer I'm afraid but am now dead curious :-) Have been pretty much ignoring the MP back-end and asking XBMC to do all the whizzy stuff. For (UK) TV shows the TVdb is pretty hit and miss so I've not bothered using the library option (have updated tvdb a few times 0:-) ). Hadn't thought to use MP xml data - really good idea! So a +1 from me!

In the TV setting - Channel Manager there's an option to point to another EPG - wonder if switching that might populate xml file differently (but .. quite clearly.. don't have a clue!)

Maybe there is some better way but i couldn't figure out how to make xbmc to turn off/standby/hibernate after recording, GMPS makes this easy.

http://gmps.sourceforge.net

@andreacom

5 sec channel switching is normal i think (correct me if i´m wrong)

Have you tried the WebEpg? surely Italy have some epg sources already implemented. I followed this wiki:http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIA...ins/WebEPG

Hi, I know it is not the thread , but have to ask.
Is it possi´ble to use the dvbviewer recordingservices upnp server ? instead of the MediaPotal TVserver?

Regards
Helio

Hi all:
I have setup MediaPortal 1.1.3 and latest TVServerXBMC in my PC.
I try the XBMC Python script addon on AppleTV2 XBMC, the script can connect the server and list the channel correctly.
But when I select the channel, it always show the message "Server is offline or unavailable." on AppleTV2 side, and no debug message at the TVServerXBMC console. It seems that the script have a little bug. Anyone please kindly investigate on this issue, thanks~

helio58 Wrote:Hi, I know it is not the thread , but have to ask.
Is it possi´ble to use the dvbviewer recordingservices upnp server ? instead of the MediaPotal TVserver?

Regards
Helio

I think there is no need of pvr branch to use recordingservices from dvbviewer, you can just add it by add source, browsing to the upnp server.