2008-03-26, 22:11
Not a perfect solution but....
Mythweb is actually really functional. What if we just used mythweb as an epg? It would already include all of the recording options you could possibly want and it wouldn't seem too difficult to add a "Play Now" button to the first entry of the epg that would then pass the channel info to dvdplayer and start the channel playing. This is just kind of a brainstorm right now. It is possible in the current state of things if you launch firefox through a python script with the mythweb address added to the command. (referring to the linux build right now). The only issue with that is that it launches an external window so you lose that seamless integration factor. However, at some point I am assuming that XBMC will have the ability to launch linux programs inside an xbmc window. If the window opened inside xbmc it would be a pretty good solution to the problem.
Pros:
It would be skinnable and perhaps could be merged with xbmc's current webcontrol.
Most of the work is already done and all the functionality is there.
Cons:
Not a true "internal" solution
xbox version would lack a web-browser.
Is specific for mythtv, ok for now but later if xbmc tries to support other pvr backends it could be a problem. Unless the others also have a fairly nice webinterface.
Just some thoughts.
Mythweb is actually really functional. What if we just used mythweb as an epg? It would already include all of the recording options you could possibly want and it wouldn't seem too difficult to add a "Play Now" button to the first entry of the epg that would then pass the channel info to dvdplayer and start the channel playing. This is just kind of a brainstorm right now. It is possible in the current state of things if you launch firefox through a python script with the mythweb address added to the command. (referring to the linux build right now). The only issue with that is that it launches an external window so you lose that seamless integration factor. However, at some point I am assuming that XBMC will have the ability to launch linux programs inside an xbmc window. If the window opened inside xbmc it would be a pretty good solution to the problem.
Pros:
It would be skinnable and perhaps could be merged with xbmc's current webcontrol.
Most of the work is already done and all the functionality is there.
Cons:
Not a true "internal" solution
xbox version would lack a web-browser.
Is specific for mythtv, ok for now but later if xbmc tries to support other pvr backends it could be a problem. Unless the others also have a fairly nice webinterface.
Just some thoughts.