[mythtv-users] Comcast Cable encrypted channels

Andrew Gallatin gallatin at cs.duke.edu
Sat Aug 8 01:13:49 UTC 2009


David Madsen [david.madsen at gmail.com] wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin at cs.duke.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I tried XBMC with a trial version of PlayON (which was running on XP
> > in a Virtual Box VM on my Hardy server) to stream Hulu. ?It worked
> > tolerably well, except that fast foward and rewind did not work at
> > all. This is apparently a well known bug with PlayOn and XBMC.
> 
> 
> I didn't have the same problems with FF/REW that were mentioned.
> Seeking backward worked fine.  Seeking forward worked fine as well as
> long as you don't try to seek beyond the point the transcoding has
> reached.  I was using a PS3 as the client though instead of XBMC.

Yes, the FF/REW problem is a bug in the use of XMBC as a PlayOn
client.  As far as I know, most hardware clients work fine.

Drew


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