[mythtv-users] Native MythTV support added to XBMC

[Phill Edwards]

>
> Native MythTV support has been added to XBMC recently (I believe the last
> few weeks). You can currently watch and delete recordings, and watch and
> record livetv. There is no epg, commskip, or any other advanced feature
> yet.
> But it's dead simple to setup and use. Simply add new new Video source
> with
> the path:
>
> myth://dbusername:dbpassword@192.168.1.1<dbusername%3Adbpassword@192.168.1.1>
>
> dbusername and dbpassword are of course the username and password for your
> mythtv database, and the ip is the ip of your backend.
>
> The latest T3CH XBMC svn build has this myth support working. You can
> download it here: http://t3ch.yi.se/
>
> It currently doesn't completely replace the need for a frontend, but for
> those of us that use our Xbox for just casual watching, its an interesting
> alternative.
>

I haven't tried the native MythTV support yet, but I have mapped some video
sources to my MythTV samba shares and they work fine. The important
difference with this release of XBMC is that it finally seems to natively
support MythTV's nuppelvideo format. I transcode all my DVB-T MPEG2
recordings to save space. Previously XBMC couldn't play them and you had to
find and install a special of mplayer.dll. Now it seems they're supported
right out of the box so that's a massive step forward in itself.
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