With the release of XBMC 10.0 (Dharma) came the addition of the addon framework to XBMC. As this project became more mature it opened the door for skinners to start taking advantage of skinning interfaces for PVR and add them to various XBMC skins. Project student Alcoheca began the fork of what would eventually become the XBMC PVR branch. Serious efforts to create a PVR frontend for XBMC started with a project during Google Summer of Code 2008. These file sources were also part of the XBMC core codebase, so updates to the backend API often broke the integration until XBMC pushed out an update. This did not allow XBMC to be used a true PVR frontend since user still had to view EPG data and schedule recordings via the backend interface. XBMC has long had support for viewing recordings from backend recording services such as MythTV and TVHeadend through the use of specialized video sources that communicate with the backend software.

Until I can work this out, I'll have to workout the smaller glitches in DVBviewer/MediaPortal/NextPVR.MythTV add-on not yet merged into XBMC PVR Addons Repo, but is available in fetzerch's branch Both seem to be very good packages in all other measures. The answer may lie in figuring out why DVBViewer works and DVBdream doesn't. If anyone has any thoughts on what to try, I will give it a go. Since it failed in Windows 7 with fully working programs like it and also failed in Windows 8 where it was the only program of its kind, I have to conclude that there is perhaps a bug somewhere. Search for info on this error but could not find much relating to it that is applicable to my system. At last, I get Error Code 6 in both Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Need to find and try.ĭVBDream was my last hope. MediaPortal does not yet have satellite dish motor support in production, but supposedly has an addon. NEXTPVR doesn't handle satellite dishes with motors very well, otherwise works fine.įusionHD and Avermedia either do not have good English support or continue support for the respecitive card. The following additional software was considered.ĭVBViewer loads all cards, but gave me problems with recording (stutter) and needs further investigation. All software works reasonably well but looking to integrate ATSC and Satellite into one package. Had the following installed before loading DVBDream. Running Intel I3 on an ASROCK 77? motherboard. One DVBSky 952 Dual input DVB-S2/S Card, similar to Mystic I have Windows 7 and Windows 8 on the same machine.

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