[mythtv-users] Comcast Cable encrypted channels

Alan Marchiori alan at alanmarian.com
Tue Aug 4 17:18:19 UTC 2009


On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Brian Wood<beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 August 2009 10:52:43 Alan Marchiori wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Brian Wood<beww at beww.org> wrote:
>> > On Tuesday 04 August 2009 10:18:35 Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> >> And, since those of you who want to use Netflix Watch Instantly can go
>> >> out an buy a Roku Netflix Player for $99 or less, there's absolutely no
>> >> reason to put the MythTV project and developers in a dangerous position.
>> >
>> > Much less in some cases. The PlayON server will allow you to watch
>> > Netflix on any UPnP/DLNA device, and costs $40, though it's often
>> > available for less.
>> >
>> > The main problem is PlayON is Windows only.
>>
>> If you setup a PlayON server wouldn't that make it also possible to
>> watch Netfilx et. al. from a mythfrontend?  Are there any good
>> upnp/dlna clients for linux that would be easy to integrate into
>> mythfrontend (if it is not so already)?
>
> I've been looking for such a beast, and haven't found one yet.
>
> I'm certainly open to ideas, so far I've been using a PS3, an Xbox, a D-Link
> DSM-520 and a Myka. All work quite well, but having it integrated into a Myth
> frontend would be great.
>

have you tried XBMC?  It seems to support both linux and is a UPnP
client.  I'm thinking of trying it at least... then just put a button
on the main myth menu to launch XBMC..?


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