Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 18:35:34 +0100 (CET) From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xbmc pvr in ports Message-ID: <201112071735.pB7HZYwO056592@triton8.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <20111207011512.fad24b92.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <20111119113719.GA20783@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <201112062039.pB6Kdlfh027793@triton8.kn-bremen.de>
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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 <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> 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
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