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2010-01-19, 19:59
(This post was last modified: 2010-12-23, 19:58 by tvman.)
We are looking for a developer for XBMC plugin for an existing IPTV project. We provide all APIs and an already running version of plugin in Windows Media Center. Willing to negotiate payment for plugin development. Please contact me at info at bestrussiantv.com
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a little more detail on what you want may be needed to see what possibility we have.
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I believe XBMC has PVR branch which could be used to generate this instead of a plugin.
The normal XBMC log IS NOT a debug log, to enable debug logging you must toggle it on under XBMC Settings - System or in advancedsettings.xml. Use
XBMC Debug Log Addon to retrieve it.
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would be a good stuff, client registering / authentificating is not necessary in python code? i assume it must be an ip filter on server side? doesn't need to install something on client side?
seems an API is available, python coding part won't be a problem, but this kind of screen would required a good skinner for display!
i've seen some developpement for tv guide in mythtv plugin, all seems to be possible.
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APIs are available for all the functionality. An already working prototype is available for Media Center and Team Media Portal. The only thing is, I am not sure what's available in XBMC to re-use in order to get the same functionality as in WMC.
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well we could say more if we had some english screen, would help to see what kind of stuff is available, for now this seems to be possible, what functionnality are your looking for?
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2010-01-20, 00:20
(This post was last modified: 2010-01-20, 00:23 by jmarshall.)
Hi tvman, as the others have pointed out, as long as XBMC can get direct access to the video stream (i.e. it's not wrapped up in some DRM, requiring something like silverlight) then that should be doable.
There's really four options for what you have there in the screenshots:
1. Implement it via the PVR branch. This is currently developed in a separate branch and may or may not be applicable. It's likely to be merged into trunk in the next 6 months or so, so getting it in official builds is a while off. That said, depending on how your EPG is generated this may be the best way to move forward. This will require someone with c/c++ coding ability at least.
2. Implement it via a script. This will require quite a bit of work to implement the EPG and the like as per your screenshots. For initial functionality this may not be required, however. Requires python + skinning skills.
3. Implement it via a plugin. This is a simple "directory listing" interface for XBMC - users click on the plugin and are given a list of "directories" which in this case could be the channels or perhaps a "what's on now" listing. It wouldn't look like your screenshots, but I suspect would be the fastest way to get something up and running, allowing access for your users to your content. Requires only python skills.
4. Implement it via an RSS feed server-side. This is again a simple "directory listing" interface for XBMC as per 3. The difference here is you generate RSS feeds on your server that the user connects to. These are plain http urls, any directories use rss://<url>. Not sure how the authentication side of things would go. You'd just require someone to code up the rss stuff in this case. I'm not sure how well XBMC handles "feeds of feeds" (i.e. subdirs in feeds) but this is something that the XBMC team can take care of - if there are feeds demanding the feature, we'll add it.
Ofcourse, there's no reason why you can't start with number 3 or 4 and move to number 1 longer term.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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Is there any way to get in touch with people who develop for PVR?
Would you guys be interested in taking on this project?
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interested, yes, but i'm not full of time for now.
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Guys, we are ready to pay money for this plugin, if you are interested, please get back to me and we will discuss the details.