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By the way, the latest subversion repo has an XBMC video plug-in for "Recorded TV". It's not pretty, but it works (for me at least). It requires a build of the current updated MP TVServerXBMC.dll plug-in, and the source code for that is up-to-date in subversion (but not the DLL at present). Personally, watching recorded TV is more useful than live TV, so this makes me particularly happy. I'd hoped to have had an updated plug-in DLL, but my build system is on the fritz, and the DLL I have seems a bit unreliable as a result.

The Live TV and Recorded TV components are combined on the MP side, but separate modules on the XBMC side. The plan is to bring them into the one plug-in. The only real difference that makes is that you only have to configure your settings once. The Recorded TV plug-in fetches the MP filename of the recorded show, and prefixes smb://mpserver/sharename/ so there's an extra config option. Using SMB to play the file works quite well (as it has done for a while with the XBMCMythTV script). It means we don't have to code against a special MediaPortal API.

I've checked in the latest MP plug-in DLL. If anyone can test it out and report back, that'd be great.

<blockquote data-quote="jez" data-source="post: 328993" data-attributes="member: 84238">By the way, the latest subversion repo has an XBMC video plug-in for &quot;Recorded TV&quot;.&nbsp; It's not pretty, but it works (for me at least).&nbsp; It requires a build of the current updated MP TVServerXBMC.dll plug-in, and the source code for that is up-to-date in subversion (but not the DLL at present).&nbsp; Personally, watching recorded TV is more useful than live TV, so this makes me particularly happy.&nbsp; I'd hoped to have had an updated plug-in DLL, but my build system is on the fritz, and the DLL I have seems a bit unreliable as a result.The Live TV and Recorded TV components are combined on the MP side, but separate modules on the XBMC side.&nbsp; The plan is to bring them into the one plug-in.&nbsp; The only real difference that makes is that you only have to configure your settings once.&nbsp; The Recorded TV plug-in fetches the MP filename of the recorded show, and prefixes smb://mpserver/sharename/ so there's an extra config option.&nbsp; Using SMB to play the file works quite well (as it has done for a while with the XBMCMythTV script).&nbsp; It means we don't have to code against a special MediaPortal API.I've checked in the latest MP plug-in DLL.&nbsp; If anyone can test it out and report back, that'd be great.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jez, post: 328993, member: 84238"] By the way, the latest subversion repo has an XBMC video plug-in for "Recorded TV". It's not pretty, but it works (for me at least). It requires a build of the current updated MP TVServerXBMC.dll plug-in, and the source code for that is up-to-date in subversion (but not the DLL at present). Personally, watching recorded TV is more useful than live TV, so this makes me particularly happy. I'd hoped to have had an updated plug-in DLL, but my build system is on the fritz, and the DLL I have seems a bit unreliable as a result. The Live TV and Recorded TV components are combined on the MP side, but separate modules on the XBMC side. The plan is to bring them into the one plug-in. The only real difference that makes is that you only have to configure your settings once. The Recorded TV plug-in fetches the MP filename of the recorded show, and prefixes smb://mpserver/sharename/ so there's an extra config option. Using SMB to play the file works quite well (as it has done for a while with the XBMCMythTV script). It means we don't have to code against a special MediaPortal API. I've checked in the latest MP plug-in DLL. If anyone can test it out and report back, that'd be great. [/QUOTE]