Comments on: Play MythTV recordings in VLC

By: Loune

Loune — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 02:22:27 +0000

@PeO, I’ve now updated the plugin to work with VLC 1.1.5 and MythTV 0.23+ See http://siphon9.net/loune/2010/11/mythtv-vlc-plugin-now-supports-vlc-1-1-5/

By: PeO

PeO — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:03:44 +0000

Hi
I’ve been searching for a way to watch LiveTV from mtyhtv backend to a VLC frontend for some time. Found this now, but last comment suggests it’s not ready for current VLC 1.0. That was almost a year ago, any news on that?
If could program I would love to help, unfortunatly that’s not the case. It’s possible I might be able to help with testing if needed.

regards
PeO

By: Loune

Loune — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:28:50 +0000

@David yes it’s possible to port to linux

@Mac MythTV User the hard bit with live tv and myth tv is knowing when to give up the tuner so normal recordings won’t get blocked.

@Chris yes I do want to open source it and welcome any help I can get. I just need to find time to fix the source code so it works with VLC 1.0

By: Chris Browet

Chris Browet — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:59:31 +0000

Any chance this might be open-sourced?

By: Mac MythTV User

Mac MythTV User — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:52:54 +0000

How about setting up a VLC-server to run along side the MythBackEnd and some scripts to read from the Myth recordings database (in MySQL) and advertise them to VLC-clients like a mini-IPTV station? Also, I think live-TV is just a matter of implementing some remote channel-changing ability (plug-in or adapt the IPTV controls?) and broadcasting the resulting mpeg that’s being created “live”. The trick is though that the client-side remote channel-changing code should also display the Program Guide –maybe using VNC to a MythFrontEnd running on the MythBackEnd. Still not very much work, since VLC is doing all the heavy lifting.

By: David

David — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:01:42 +0000

Would be nice to use this on Linux as well. Is the plugin portable? I watch Mythtv recordings on Linux with VLC but would like it to skip commercials.

By: Hannes

Hannes — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:17:27 +0000

Thanks for this. Works fine with Windows XP, VLC 0.9.8a and MythTV 0.21.

By: Loune

Loune — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:24:54 +0000

Currently the plugin can only play TV recordings. I’m not sure if it’s possible to use mythtv for streaming media files over the network.

It doesn’t work on VLC 1.0 yet and some major changes are required to get it working. So it will be a while until there’s a 1.0 compatible version.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:49:15 +0000

Brilliant!

Any chance you could update it for the latest version of VLC. Tried it and it just crashes.

I also tried it on 0.9.8a, the zip version just unzipped to a folder on the deskop and repeated your instructions but it crashed.

Both crashes are when selecting “Playlist > Additional Sources > Myth TV library”

Does it make a difference that I don’t have MythTV set up to watch TV. I use it for the other features – e.g. Video Library for downloaded video.

By: Loune

Loune — Sun, 17 May 2009 06:21:30 +0000

I’ve been working on it sporadically for the last few months. Looks like you are running a beta version mythtv (0.22?). I might release a new version in the coming weeks that will support the new version.