[chris86t]

XBMC for Windows is working great. I'd love to see it have tv tuning capability. I've tried out several opensource/freeware HTPC programs, and none of them compare to XBMC for ease of use.

Is there ever a future for TV tuning in XBMC, or should I just create a mythTV box and stream things over that way.

One last unrelated thing. Is there a way to add a back arrow to click on in each page of XBMC? The mouse works great for most functions, but when I want to go to a previous section, I always have to reach for my keyboard.

[jmarshall]

It's likely that we won't bother with the backend stuff, and only offer a front end, so myth is an option for that, yep. We have support already for Myth (LiveTV + recordings).

Right mouse button in an unused area goes back, and ofcourse you can add back buttons to the skin easily enough if you want to.

Cheers,
Jonathan

[Gamester17]

Maybe the possibility to use MediaPortal (and others) as the backend for TV-tuning is added to the future as well, see:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=GSoC_-_Unified_PVR_Frontend
and
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=28918

...but for now you will have to make due with the MythTV backend if you like to have a need for Live-TV in XBMC.

You can use full version of MediaPortal today as the 'backend' if scheduling and playback of existing recodings is enough for you, (there is a couple of python script to control MediaPortal from XBMC).

[chris86t]

Maybe the possibility to use MediaPortal (and others) as the backend for TV-tuning is added to the future as well, see:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=GSoC_-_Unified_PVR_Frontend
and
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=28918

...but for now you will have to make due with the MythTV backend if you like to have a need for Live-TV in XBMC.

You can use full version of MediaPortal today as the 'backend' if scheduling and playback of existing recodings is enough for you, (there is a couple of python script to control MediaPortal from XBMC).

I already record using the tv card's included software, and i point xbmc(from pc and xbox) to the folder on the pc with the software. I'd love to be able to do live tv from a windows PC to other PC's or XBOXes running XBMC. I don't have enough room for a mythtv pc and everything else i want to run.

I havn't done any programming in 10 years. Looks like this might be my reason to start again. I guess I'll need to learn python for XBMC. What else should I start looking into to code for XBMC?

[Gamester17]

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Appendix_D:_...ment_Notes

For python it is also good to look at others existing scripts:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmcmythtv/
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/plugin...07-a-2263/
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/genera...ipt-36590/
http://forums.dvbowners.com/index.php?showtopic=7714