[plug] MythTV project

Lucas van Staden lvs at dedmeet.com
Fri Feb 11 16:15:40 WST 2011 

That plugin is still active and works pretty well. called MythBox - 
http://code.google.com/p/mythbox/

I use it in conjunction with the 'built-in' mythtv// protocol, which you 
set as a source to video content, in XBMC.
The built in mythtv// protocol is just to do playback, and makes it 
easier to get to the recordings from mythtv.

-Lucas



On 11/02/11 16:03, Alvin Teh wrote:
>
> 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 
> <mailto: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.html 
> (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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