2008-07-06, 06:31
agaffney Wrote:However, when I try to actually view anything (live or pre-recorded), it acts like it's playing but I just get a black screen. This still works fine with the actual mythfrontend and this backend.
The other problem is that when I choose "Guides", nothing happens. Is this part supposed to work yet?
This has been covered before, but this thread is quite long now...
To get the myth:// protocol to play any of the Recorded Shows or watch Live TV you have to tell XBMC what the IP addres is of the MythTV backend server. This is done by creating and adding information to the AdvancedSettings.xml file (http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=AdvancedSettings.xml) on your XBox (instructions on the wiki page).
Code:
<advancedsettings>
<hosts>
<entry name="[b]MythBackend hostname[/b]">[b]MythBackend IP address[/b]</entry>
</hosts>
</advancedsettings>
More information about the <hosts> section is at http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=AdvancedSettings.xml
This needs to be done because the standard DNS behaviour on the XBox is a bit average and the myth:// protocol gets the hostname when it connects rather than the IP address. If you check a debug version of your xbmc.log file you'll almost certainly notice some DNS lookup failures for the name of your MythBackend server.