<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Rob Connolly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob@webworxshop.com" target="_blank">rob@webworxshop.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi All,<br>
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Having reinstalled and moved over to XBMC for the front end successfully<br>
I thought I'd share my experiences for anyone else who's interested.<br>
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The reinstall and configuration of Myth was pretty easy, but as was<br>
mentioned here it did take me pretty much a full day to get back to my<br>
previous setup. That said I did find it much easier than the first time<br>
around (having all the config files and some notes really helped).<br>
<br>
The only issue I did run into was installing Mythweb from the deb-multimedia<br>
repo. The package failed to install due to the post-install script<br>
failing. I ended up downloading the source package and editing the<br>
script to remove that line (it was a sed command). This enabled the<br>
resulting package to install but I had to configure it by hand. I<br>
suspect this was caused by db-config generating a database password with<br>
a / in it, which the sed line didn't like. I haven't confirmed this yet,<br>
but when I do I'll post a bug.<br>
<br>
Having got myth working I spent the rest of my time playing around with<br>
XBMC. I have to say the interface is definately a one-up on<br>
Mythfrontend. I managed to get the PVR integration working pretty<br>
painlessly, though I later found that the recordings list would never<br>
update. The solution to this was to compile the latest cmyth plugin from<br>
source, which was reasonably easy.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What version of mythtv are you running for the backend?<br><br></div><div>I have been running mythbuntu 12.04 plus XBMC frodo-xvba for some time now. I start XBMC from a mythfrontend menu item. I initially did this for ripped movies/tv as it has far better metadata handling and addons than mythtv. However the myth pvr stuff is now actually working quite well and I have been doing a bit of TV watching on it too. Running successfully against myth 0.27.<br>
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The whole thing has been running well now for a couple of weeks. I'm<br>
still learning my way around XBMC (playing a ripped DVD directory<br>
stumped me on Friday until I googled it). There are still a few issues.<br>
XBMC seems a little more crashy than Mythfrontend, which is annoying but<br>
not terrible. Also, it doesn't seem to deal with watching recordings in<br>
progress as well (it works, but the length counter doesn't advance<br>
correctly, which can be confusing). Hopefully these issues will be fixed<br>
as time goes on.<br>
<br>
One other thing was the NZ Ondemand plugin. I briefly looked at this,<br>
but wasn't able to get any TVNZ shows to show up, even though it appears<br>
to support it (i.e. there is a settings page for TVNZ in the<br>
configuration). Has anyone tried this plugin and run into the same<br>
problem?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The plugin simply doesn't work and does not get any love - no commits to git for 7 months when I looked a couple of days ago. You could try the git master version <a href="https://github.com/markhoney/plugin.video.nz.ondemand">https://github.com/markhoney/plugin.video.nz.ondemand</a><br>
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