[jrichards52081]

krustyreturns,

I'm going to throw my hat in the ring as being very interested in this. When I first built my HTPC, I went with Mediaportal for the TV Recording and GUI customization built-in. It's a great program but just not as active as XBMC and I was missing a lot of things I wanted. I also used Argus for recording for a while.

When Windows 8 came out with the $10 WMC upgrade, I went for it and couldn't believe how easy it was. My EPG downloads flawlessy (its a hassle with mc2xml, and I don't want to pay a subscription service for EPG data), It hasn't missed a recording yet, it wakes and sleeps with no problems.

I've heard good things about NextPVR, but frankly WMC works so well for recording, I'd rather help figure out how to get it into XBMC than try another recording backend.

If you need testers, you can count me in. I'm not a programmer so I won't be able to help with code, but I work with programers and can usually help troubleshoot where something went wrong. And if you're willing to share, I'd love to try your process for getting WMC's netflix working right. I can open directly to it no problem, but I have to close WMC to get back to XBMC. I don't know to get back in to XBMC when backing out of the netflix plugin.

I'm most interested in EPG integration and setting recordings rather than Live TV. I use an antenna for all of my TV and usually just use the TV's built in tuner unless I need time-shifting. XBMC plays WTV files fine, and there are already programs to rename them properly for XBMC's scrapers.