[mythtvnz] XBMC Windows frontend - build for testing

[Ross and Jemima Knudsen]

Hi all,

Well I have got good news.  I have been searching for a good solution to 
my dilemma regarding getting a Windows frontend for Mythtv that will 
playback the NZ HD content (issues with LATM).  I have Windows 7RC on my 
laptop and have tried Windows Media Player, Windows Media Centre (which 
has a very nice GUI) as well as several ports etc that are supposed to 
connect to Myth with no success (well VLC can play back LATM content 
OK).  David Teirney managed to get Paul Kendall's patch included into 
the XBMC source code but the way that XBMC is built meant that it 
doesn't work for Windows builds out of the box.  After much effort on 
forums and hunting around I figured out that libfaad needed to be 
compiled into ffmpeg on windows and the whole XBMC system compiled after 
that...

Safe to say that I managed to get this to work but since I am a relative 
newbie to this whole thing I'd like to test out the build.  If it all 
works well I'll try and get it included permanently into the source code 
etc.  So if anyone would like to give this a go here is what to do:

- Download the XBMC install file (ignore the helpdesk file) from:  
http://www.mydisk.se/coco/?user=pico
if it asks for a password it is 'pico' without quotes.

- Install it

- Use this page (http://www.xbmc.org/wiki/?title=MythTV) to set up the 
connection to your Myth backend.

- Test it

- Give feedback

Rossco