Michael Tiller wrote:
To be honest I have a hard time figuring out exactly what XMBC is doing
just by looking at the user interface. It asks for the protocol version
but it also wants the video files to be mountable across an SMB
connection. As far as I can tell, it isn't streaming anything (in the
mythtv://... sense) but I'm not familiar enough with the internals and
the protocol to really say for sure.
I managed to watch recorded shows but never tried live TV (although it
did ask where my ring buffer was stored on an SMB filesystem).
Based on my very limited experience with XMBC, it looks very
impressive. It would be great if the two communities worked toward some
kind of integration. With the XBox 360 out and prices on used XBoxs
falling, I would seriously consider an XBox over a MediaMVP. The MVPs
are OK but their video quality and robustness are a bit of an issue.
--
Mike
The XBMC Python scripts for MythTV use MySQL to interrogate the database
about recording names, channel IDs etc (so you see a pretty name for
your recorded shows rather than just the bare filename). The protocol
information (AFAIK) is only used to determine that it's really a Mythtv
backend it's connecting to, and that it's there. As it relies on an SMB
share to access the files, you can safely assume it's not talking to the
backend the same way a genuine mythtv frontend would ;-)
The rest of what the scripts do is basically talking to the XBMC API
(what there is of it) and telling it what files to play.
As for XBMC & Mythtv becoming integrated, even to a small extent - I
think maybe hell will freeze over first, seen as XBMC needs to be
compiled using 'borrowed' Microsoft development tools. That said, work
has been going on for a considerable amount of time, on a _true_ open
source development kit. How work on that will continue to progress now
attention has shifted towards the Xbox360, is anybody's guess.
Regards,
Justin
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