XBMC Python Script (2 Viewers)

[infinite.loop]

Is there still activity on TV Server and XBMC interaction?
Has this reached a working level?

I would be happy to see this working

To me it seems that no dev from XBMC Team is interested in such.
Quite strange since TV is a major part in HTPC's.
But maybe they are more interested in a Linux solution -> MythTV.

 

[rtv]

To me it seems that no dev from XBMC Team is interested in such.
But maybe they are more interested in a Linux solution -> MythTV.

Wrong.
XBMC team is already pretty far with VDR integration. Maybe far enough that the next C't VDR will have XBMC as GUI.

 

[infinite.loop]

To me it seems that no dev from XBMC Team is interested in such.
But maybe they are more interested in a Linux solution -> MythTV.

Wrong.
XBMC team is already pretty far with VDR integration. Maybe far enough that the next C't VDR will have XBMC as GUI.

Well, nice for XBMC/VDR users, but not so much of interest for us then, or?
Because thats what i meant.

 

[rtv]

To me it seems that no dev from XBMC Team is interested in such.
But maybe they are more interested in a Linux solution -> MythTV.

Wrong.
XBMC team is already pretty far with VDR integration. Maybe far enough that the next C't VDR will have XBMC as GUI.

Well, nice for XBMC/VDR users, but not so much of interest for us then, or?
Because thats what i meant.

Every party gets a piece of the cake. They address the techy users with a shiny product and we address the 'common' people with a stable product...

 

[infinite.loop]

Wrong.
XBMC team is already pretty far with VDR integration. Maybe far enough that the next C't VDR will have XBMC as GUI.

Well, nice for XBMC/VDR users, but not so much of interest for us then, or?
Because thats what i meant.

Every party gets a piece of the cake. They address the techy users with a shiny product and we address the 'common' people with a stable product...

Indeed.
From what i have read about the VDR+XBMC setup so far in the C't, it really is for the techy guys which bring a lot of patience along.

 

[jof]

What about h.264 hardware acceleration in linux?
I heard Nvidia has a API for this?

Edit: I just saw XBMC has implented VDPAU already

 

[jayless]

Hello

i always get an error when i try and load the plugin:

"error python script failed" "special://home/plugins/video/TVServer/default.py"

anyone has any idea about this? (im using xbmc and mediaportal on windows xp sp3)

cheers,

J.

 

[Bigs]

I've been scratching my head at this script for weeks now and since I'm not in any way a python programmer I really can't find out what is going wrong. Been searching and googling on all possible aspects of this without getting anywhere really.

Here's a snip of my xbmc logfile:

23:11:50 T:4728 M:457424896  NOTICE: Traceback (most recent call last):
23:11:50 T:4728 M:457424896  NOTICE:   File "C:\Users\Lasse\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\plugins\video\TVServer\default.py", line 19, in ?
23:11:50 T:4728 M:457424896  NOTICE: plugin.Main()
23:11:50 T:4728 M:457424896  NOTICE:   File "C:\Users\Lasse\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\plugins\video\TVServer\MpTv\xbmcplugin_list.py", line 41, in __init__
23:11:50 T:4728 M:457383936  NOTICE: self._conn.connect(server_host, server_port)
23:11:50 T:4728 M:457383936  NOTICE:   File "C:\Users\Lasse\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\plugins\video\TVServer\MpTv\MpTVConnector.py", line 33, in connect
23:11:50 T:4728 M:457375744  NOTICE: self.sock.connect((host, port))
23:11:50 T:4728 M:457375744  NOTICE:   File "<string>", line 1, in connect
23:11:50 T:4728 M:457375744  NOTICE: TypeError
23:11:50 T:4728 M:457375744  NOTICE: :
23:11:50 T:4728 M:457375744  NOTICE: an integer is required
23:11:50 T:4728 M:457375744   ERROR: Scriptresult: Error
23:11:51 T:4728 M:457334784  NOTICE: Exception
23:11:51 T:4728 M:457334784  NOTICE: socket.error
23:11:51 T:4728 M:457334784  NOTICE: :
23:11:51 T:4728 M:457334784  NOTICE: (10057, 'Socket is not connected')
23:11:51 T:4728 M:457334784  NOTICE:  in
23:11:51 T:4728 M:457334784  NOTICE: <bound method MpTVConnector.__del__ of <MpTv.MpTVConnector.MpTVConnector instance at 0x0F28A9B8>>
23:11:51 T:4728 M:457334784  NOTICE:  ignored
23:11:52 T:4036 M:458637312   ERROR: DIRECTORY::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://video/TVServer/
23:11:52 T:4036 M:458637312   ERROR: CGUIDialogFileBrowser::GetDirectory(plugin://video/TVServer/) failed

For the record I live in quite a large family with many computers and many tv-sets in the house. What I would like to achieve is a client/server solution where I can use one or more dvb-t cards in one computer, preferrably the one in the livingroom where I have all my music and videos stored, to host a tv-server solution (ofcourse with a local client installed for the livingroom TV) to wich I can connect clients throughout the house. I have a complete wired network to all rooms in the house aswell as a WLAN for the roaming laptops the family uses as school, work, and internet surfing-in-the-kitchen-while-eating-a-sandwich.

Our current setup is a Vista MCE running on the htpc in the livingroom, wich shares the music and the movies to various xboxes connected to the tv's in the bedrooms. I'm currently running TV server on another computer for testing media portal as a client/server solution. But I would also like to test XBMC as a client to the TV server.

The server part of the project mentioned in this thread doesnt give me any problems so far, tho I havent really been able to test it since the XBMC-script doesnt even load...

So I'm trying here, kind of as a last resort to solve this problem. To my fairly experienced (as in experienced in reading log files looking for errors ) it really doesnt look like a very complicated error. Though looking back at my efforts to solve this during these last few weeks I guess it might be...

I sincerely hope someone out there have the time and interest to perhaps look into this. In the mean time I would like to thank those who came up with the idea and did the work.

 

[della chef]

Hello

i always get an error when i try to start the plugin

"error python script failed" "special://home/plugins/video/TVServer/default.py" on the xbox and on the pc version of xbmc ,if there is anybody who is able to help me it would be cool ,thanx
della chef

 

[della chef]

Is there anybody....

...out there who is able to program this and to fix that plugin ? Unfortunatly i have absolutley no developer skills ,but i would really like to get that plugin working because i think it´s a very good idea and a easier to use alternative to the linux vdr or mythtv option ,because for that i would have to install linux on my client.