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<blockquote data-quote="jebus1867" data-source="post: 1101947" data-attributes="member: 149978">There is a rational for this. It's a little convoluted though. Basically I am launching an instance of MP using Advanced Launcher from within XBMC, because MP handles TV better on its own (particularly with the Microsoft DVB decoders enabled, rather than the LAV decoders). I think the Microsoft DVB decoders are the same decoders that are in Microsoft Media Centre (which for other convoluted reasons I can't have). The quality and performance seems hard to match. This option (to use external filters/decoders) isn't available in XBMC - which results in a fair bit of stuttering and reduced image quality when using XBMC to play TV, with MediaPortal as the backend. The EPG and recording functionality of Media Portal is also superior to XBMC.So when launching an instance of MP from within XBMC, it would simply save quite a few button presses to have it launch straight into live TV. I know the choice is usually between XBMC and MP, but XBMC handles local and streaming file play back better in my view than MP. It also has a lot of cool scripts and plugins not available on MP. So this is just something of a compromise between the best of both worlds.As I said, the rational is probably a bit convoluted.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jebus1867, post: 1101947, member: 149978"] There is a rational for this. It's a little convoluted though. Basically I am launching an instance of MP using Advanced Launcher from within XBMC, because MP handles TV better on its own (particularly with the Microsoft DVB decoders enabled, rather than the LAV decoders). I think the Microsoft DVB decoders are the same decoders that are in Microsoft Media Centre (which for other convoluted reasons I can't have). The quality and performance seems hard to match. This option (to use external filters/decoders) isn't available in XBMC - which results in a fair bit of stuttering and reduced image quality when using XBMC to play TV, with MediaPortal as the backend. The EPG and recording functionality of Media Portal is also superior to XBMC. So when launching an instance of MP from within XBMC, it would simply save quite a few button presses to have it launch straight into live TV. I know the choice is usually between XBMC and MP, but XBMC handles local and streaming file play back better in my view than MP. It also has a lot of cool scripts and plugins not available on MP. So this is just something of a compromise between the best of both worlds. As I said, the rational is probably a bit convoluted. [/QUOTE]

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