From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 7 17:37:31 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC806106566B for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 17:37:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de) Received: from smtp.kn-bremen.de (gelbbaer.kn-bremen.de [78.46.108.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B0D48FC13 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 17:37:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id E5A8C1E0023E; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 18:37:29 +0100 (CET) Received: from triton8.kn-bremen.de (noident@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id pB7HZY08056593; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 18:35:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox@triton8.kn-bremen.de) Received: (from nox@localhost) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id pB7HZYwO056592; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 18:35:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox) Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 18:35:34 +0100 (CET) From: Juergen Lock Message-Id: <201112071735.pB7HZYwO056592@triton8.kn-bremen.de> To: torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no X-Newsgroups: local.list.freebsd.multimedia In-Reply-To: <20111207011512.fad24b92.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <20111119113719.GA20783@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <201112062039.pB6Kdlfh027793@triton8.kn-bremen.de> Organization: Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xbmc pvr in ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:37:31 -0000 Btw I now have updated xbmc-addon-xvdr and vdr-plugin-xvdr to the 0.9.5 releases: http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/vdr-plugin-xvdr-0.9.5.shar http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/xbmc-addon-xvdr-0.9.5.shar In article <20111207011512.fad24b92.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> you write: >On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:39:47 +0100 (CET) >Juergen Lock wrote: > >> Yeah, it basically adds support for accessing pvr software like vdr >> (via external plugins), mythtv, tvheadend (tvheadend hasn't been >> ported yet but can still be accessed from a linux box over the >> network.) So you get things like a main menu entry called `Live >> TV', etc. (And switching channels btw is faster than with say >> vdr-sxfe too, especially for hd channels.) > >Thanks for explaing. > >> Oh and I'm still looking for mythtv testers... :) > >Well, will it work with a really old MythTV backend? I still run MythTV 0.20 (0.20.20060828-3, schema version 1158) on a FreeBSD 6.4 machine >(because I haven't been able to make newer versions of MythTV work with my PVR-500 tuner card). > It seems to be using the mythxml api, I don't really know how much that has changed between 0.20 and 0.24.1, but maybe you are lucky... >How do I test it? Is it as simple as adding your patch to multimedia/xbmc? There is some imcomplete documentation at the xbmc wiki: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Watch_TV_in_XBMC And some general xbmc documentation: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBMC_Online_Manual I think basically after installing xbmc-pvr you can start it, go into system -> settings -> add-ons -> installed add-ons -> pvr clients, select mythtv pvr client, go into Configure there, put in your mythtv backend ip etc, and then set `Enabled.' After that go in system -> settings -> live tv -> general, and set `Enabled' there too. I think then if all goes well it should import your channels, epg etc and after is finished you can try `Live TV' in the main menu. (It's possible you have to restart xbmc once in between there, IIRC that happened to me at least once...) You enter/leave the menu with Tab, go back one step with Backspace, select with Return, and navigate using the arrow keys. To exit xbmc hit `s' (for shutdown) and then select `Exit', a list of keys is here: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Global_Keyboard If you have a recent enough nvidia gfx card that knows vdpau (a list is here: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU and you can also use the multimedia/vdpauinfo port to check), you can (re-)build ffmpeg and xbmc pvr with the VDPAU knobs enabled and then enable vdpau under system -> settings -> video -> playback for on-gpu video decoding, i.e. to reduce main cpu load. Good luck! :) Juergen