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hondacrxsi at gmail

Mar 27, 2008, 9:07 AM

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Native MythTV support added to XBMC

I didn't find any threads about this so I thought some might be interested.
Native MythTV support has been added to XBMC recently (I believe the last
few weeks). You can currently watch and delete recordings, and watch and
record livetv. There is no epg, commskip, or any other advanced feature yet.
But it's dead simple to setup and use. Simply add new new Video source with
the path:

myth://dbusername:dbpassword [at] 192

dbusername and dbpassword are of course the username and password for your
mythtv database, and the ip is the ip of your backend.

The latest T3CH XBMC svn build has this myth support working. You can
download it here: http://t3ch.yi.se/

It currently doesn't completely replace the need for a frontend, but for
those of us that use our Xbox for just casual watching, its an interesting
alternative.

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philledwards at gmail

Mar 27, 2008, 8:22 PM

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Re: Native MythTV support added to XBMC [In reply to]

> Native MythTV support has been added to XBMC recently (I believe the last
> few weeks). You can currently watch and delete recordings, and watch and
> record livetv. There is no epg, commskip, or any other advanced feature yet.
> But it's dead simple to setup and use. Simply add new new Video source with
> the path:

Wow - that sounds interesting! I used to use the xbmcmythtv scripts,
but will give this a go.

XBMC is being ported to other OS's so this could become quite big as
it develops over time.

Thanks,
Phill
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anaerin at gmail

Mar 27, 2008, 8:28 PM

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Re: Native MythTV support added to XBMC [In reply to]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Phill Edwards <philledwards [at] gmail> wrote:
> > Native MythTV support has been added to XBMC recently (I believe the last
> > few weeks). You can currently watch and delete recordings, and watch and
> > record livetv. There is no epg, commskip, or any other advanced feature yet.
> > But it's dead simple to setup and use. Simply add new new Video source with
> > the path:
>
> Wow - that sounds interesting! I used to use the xbmcmythtv scripts,
> but will give this a go.
>
> XBMC is being ported to other OS's so this could become quite big as
> it develops over time.

I've tried it. It does seem to work, but I can't get it to play
anything. It turns out my Myth box is giving out it's hostname to
stream the recordings from, and the xbox is having trouble looking it
up. Is there any chance that Myth could give out a "defined" name (Or
IP address), rather than relying on the machine's hostname?
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hondacrxsi at gmail

Mar 27, 2008, 8:38 PM

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Re: Native MythTV support added to XBMC [In reply to]

Robert Johnston wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Phill Edwards <philledwards [at] gmail>
> wrote:
>> > Native MythTV support has been added to XBMC recently (I believe the
>> last
>> > few weeks). You can currently watch and delete recordings, and watch
>> and
>> > record livetv. There is no epg, commskip, or any other advanced
>> feature yet.
>> > But it's dead simple to setup and use. Simply add new new Video
>> source with
>> > the path:
>>
>> Wow - that sounds interesting! I used to use the xbmcmythtv scripts,
>> but will give this a go.
>>
>> XBMC is being ported to other OS's so this could become quite big as
>> it develops over time.
>
> I've tried it. It does seem to work, but I can't get it to play
> anything. It turns out my Myth box is giving out it's hostname to
> stream the recordings from, and the xbox is having trouble looking it
> up. Is there any chance that Myth could give out a "defined" name (Or
> IP address), rather than relying on the machine's hostname?
> --
> Robert "Anaerin" Johnston
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>

You can see my fix for the dns issue here:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showpost.php?p=176765&postcount=297

You should be able to do this or something similar with any dd/openwrt
router or linux box running dnsmasq.
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tom at redpepperracing

Mar 28, 2008, 8:41 AM

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Re: Native MythTV support added to XBMC [In reply to]

Skitals wrote:
> I didn't find any threads about this so I thought some might be interested.
> Native MythTV support has been added to XBMC recently (I believe the last
> few weeks). You can currently watch and delete recordings, and watch and
> record livetv. There is no epg, commskip, or any other advanced feature yet.
>
I tried it on my Xbox last night, after testing a couple of recordings,
it crashed my myth backend. I think it may be a hardware problem though,
it was a kernel panic.

Tom

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philledwards at gmail

Apr 12, 2008, 7:47 PM

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Re: Native MythTV support added to XBMC [In reply to]

>
> Native MythTV support has been added to XBMC recently (I believe the last
> few weeks). You can currently watch and delete recordings, and watch and
> record livetv. There is no epg, commskip, or any other advanced feature
> yet.
> But it's dead simple to setup and use. Simply add new new Video source
> with
> the path:
>
> myth://dbusername:dbpassword [at] 192<dbusername%3Adbpassword [at] 192>
>
> dbusername and dbpassword are of course the username and password for your
> mythtv database, and the ip is the ip of your backend.
>
> The latest T3CH XBMC svn build has this myth support working. You can
> download it here: http://t3ch.yi.se/
>
> It currently doesn't completely replace the need for a frontend, but for
> those of us that use our Xbox for just casual watching, its an interesting
> alternative.
>

I haven't tried the native MythTV support yet, but I have mapped some video
sources to my MythTV samba shares and they work fine. The important
difference with this release of XBMC is that it finally seems to natively
support MythTV's nuppelvideo format. I transcode all my DVB-T MPEG2
recordings to save space. Previously XBMC couldn't play them and you had to
find and install a special of mplayer.dll. Now it seems they're supported
right out of the box so that's a massive step forward in itself.

memmott at gmail

Apr 12, 2008, 8:17 PM

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Re: Native MythTV support added to XBMC [In reply to]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Phill Edwards <philledwards [at] gmail>
wrote:

> Native MythTV support has been added to XBMC recently (I believe the last
> > few weeks). You can currently watch and delete recordings, and watch and
> > record livetv. There is no epg, commskip, or any other advanced feature
> > yet.
> > But it's dead simple to setup and use. Simply add new new Video source
> > with
> > the path:
> >
> > myth://dbusername:dbpassword [at] 192<dbusername%3Adbpassword [at] 192>
> >
> > dbusername and dbpassword are of course the username and password for
> > your
> > mythtv database, and the ip is the ip of your backend.
> >
> > The latest T3CH XBMC svn build has this myth support working. You can
> > download it here: http://t3ch.yi.se/
> >
> > It currently doesn't completely replace the need for a frontend, but for
> > those of us that use our Xbox for just casual watching, its an
> > interesting
> > alternative.
> >
>
>
For Mac users, the OS X port of XBMC is very easy to set up and use. You
can download precompiled packages at http://www.osxbmc.com/. I haven't tried
it with my MythTV box yet but the previous builds I tried worked pretty
well. I've got XBMC running on my MythTV box running Ubuntu 7.10 but I can't
get sound or fullscreen to work just yet.

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