[plug] MythTV project

Fri Feb 11 16:03:56 WST 2011

A long long long time ago, i saw a plugin for XBMC where you can control a
MythTv backend to do schedule recording. It might still be available.

XBMC is only a frontend player, so it does not have any recording
capabilities itself, however I believe the guys at XBMC is working on it.
(Don't wait for it as it may be a while before it's implemented)

From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
Of Lucas van Staden
Sent: Friday, 11 February 2011 3:57 PM
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] MythTV project

Hi,

On 11/02/11 15:47, Shanon Loughton wrote: 

My ubuntu media server is not connected to my tv - i use mediatomb to serve
and ps3 to play it all.  If I replace mediatomb with xmbc on the ubuntu
server can you control the record settings through the ps3 client?

Mediatomb and XBMC are two very different things.

XBMC can serve its files to your network, but I am not sure if that is
compatible with the PS3 (have never tried that)
XBMC is only a playback frontend, cannot do any recording, for tat you need
MythTV (as one example), which can also serve the files to your network (I
forget the term right now). 
again not sure if the PS3 can be used for picking up that served content
from MythTv.

The PS3 client is just a playback service, so no, you cannot set any
schedules with it to mythtv. (that I am aware of)

I stopped using my PS3 as a frontend client a long time ago as the interface
is very cumbersome/lacking.

-Lucas

Shanon

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Lucas van Staden <lvs at dedmeet.com> wrote:

On 11/02/11 13:43, Tim Bowden wrote:

Thanks for all the advice.  WAF is a big factor here, so I'd like to
get it right before I roll it out.

It looks like I'll go with a Micro ATX motherboard for the PCI slots.
I'd like to run a separate back end system, but at the moment that's
not practical.  I've got nowhere out of the way to run a 24/7 noisy
backend system as I had to give up my study a while back for a kids
bedroom, and won't get one back till we move.  I have an old AMD-64
dual core system lying around with a dead motherboard that would make
an excellent back end if I could find a new motherboard for it.  If I
could find a Micro ATX motherboard that would still take it, I'd
consider it as as a front end, but I suspect it would be a bit noisy
with the cooling it would need.

Interesting with the xbmc option Lucas.  What are the advantages of
that over using the MythTV front end with MythVideo/Music plugins?

Mostly mine is WAF related. (look and feel/ease of use)

Last time I used mythtv frontend was a bout 4 years ago, and wife did not
like the interface at all.
Tried skin after skin after skin....

xbmc  just LOOKS way better than any of the mythtv skins/screen layouts that
I have seen and tried.
I started using it a long time ago when I did not have mythtv running, as I
had no need to record stuff (had a pvr box that did that job back in the UK)
and just wanted a frontend to view d/loaded content. and stuck with it.

I am very happy with it, and I myself think it is way better looking than
mythtv's frontend, and simpler to use.

Now that xbmc is gearing towards integrating their frontend with as many PVR
backends as they can (mythtv seeming to be a main one), it keeps the
frontend the same no matter what backend I am using, which again comes back
to WAF.

Other than that, not much else, off the top of my head.

The xbmc plugins are great (and there are MANY), easy to install using just
the menus, no technical requirements, so wife can install her own plugins as
she sees fit.

Can't comment on the music side, as I do not use that at all. (xbmc or
mythtv - I find those interfaces really cumbersome, but not as bad as the
PS3 interface to music - try and browse a couple of thousand songs there!
using just a remote)

Our music is run on the same mini-itx box (as it is next to the amp), but
the interface we use is MiniRok, which I run over the network via xorg's
network transparency stuff (and dxpc), and it allows the wife to play music
using her own actual pc, which sits in the dining room area. (easy
navigation/searching etc using actual kb and mouse - but the music blasts
out over the amp)

see
http://www.dedmeet.com/software-projects-mainmenu-12/remote-music-player.htm
l (little bit dated. Changed teh way i used dxpc to allow swapping teh
display about and I had wired the whole house with cat6e since then. Also,
we have moved on to MiniRok, which my wife likes the most of all music
players tried.- it is simple, fast, and uses file navigation, not mp3 tags.)

Minirok is run using dxpc, which is a compression layer and speeds things
up, not much use on the homes gigabit network now, but it has one huge
advantage:
Minirok is always running on the mini-itx box, inside a dxpc session, so I
can just connect to that session via a call from any pc in the home (all
linux of course)

So, I can 'seamlessly' swap the display from one pc to another, and the
music is not interrupted.
Great for parties!

-Lucas 

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