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[bunkford]

sounds like your smb shares aren't set up correctly.

[timothycdbarnes]

QUOTE(mobius60 @ Apr 21 2006, 08:29 PM)

I've been trying to use XBMC as the frontend for my Mythtv build, and everything works except for livetv and playing the recorded programs. I can see the list of recorded programs and the snapshot, but when I select play, nothing happens. It doesn't lockup or anything, just doesn't play. When I try to go to live tv, I just get a black screen. Not a big deal, I really want to view recorded programs more than anything else. I'm using Mythtv R5B7 and xbmcmythfrontend 0.19. Any suggestions?

Hi,

Yes it looks like you haven't configured the Samba shares on your Myth BE. The XBMC Myth FE works a bit differently to a standard FE, as far as I can tell it uses the Myth DB to figure out the path to the file in your Samba share, then plays it as a standard media file from the Samba share.

I have this on my BE:

In /etc/samba/smb.conf:

[myth]
        comment = Myth files
        writeable = yes
        valid users = mythtv
        path = /myth

If you've got this set up right you should be able to browse your Myth BE filesysytem from the Xbox.

and on my Xbox the Myth settings.xml ended up like this (ish ... passwords starred):

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<mythtv>
<mythtv_host>192.168.1.4</mythtv_host>
<mythtv_port>6543</mythtv_port>
<mythtv_statusport>6544</mythtv_statusport>
<mythtv_protocol>15</mythtv_protocol>
<mythtv_minlivebufsize>524288</mythtv_minlivebufsize>
<mythtv_tunewait>3</mythtv_tunewait>
<mythtv_startpage>0</mythtv_startpage>
<mysql_host>192.168.1.4</mysql_host>
<mysql_port>3306</mysql_port>
<mysql_database>mythconverg</mysql_database>
<mysql_user>mythtv</mysql_user>
<mysql_password>****</mysql_password>
<paths_recordedprefix>smb://mythtv:****@192.168.1.4/myth/tv</paths_recordedprefix>
<paths_livetvprefix>smb://mythtv:****@192.168.1.4/myth/tv</paths_livetvprefix>
<paths_localcopypath>e:\videos\</paths_localcopypath>
<recorded_view_by>1</recorded_view_by>
<upcoming_view_by>1</upcoming_view_by>
</mythtv>

the paths_... are probably the key.

My MythTV is 0.18 so I expect your protocol will be newer.

Worth sorting out, my Xbmc playback is by far the best quality playback, much better than PC. Live TV doesn't work too well for me though.