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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:49 pm 
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Hello,

I am new to this whole world of MythTV. I am planning on setting up the MythTv and get the channels setup/record and watch at later time.
I do not want to use the cable/Satellite based company to provide me with the channels. I would like to use the channels provided over internet/online and connected to the mythtv backend then feed into my TVs using the myth frondend (like set-top box). This way the channels can be watched from any room.
Please advice if mythtv can do this?

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What you wrote is a little confusing... Yes, MythTV can (it is the best way) get it's listings via the Internet. Yes, you can have multiple frontends attached to multiple TVs in your home.


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I think you are asking about TV published over the internet? IPTV or similar?

As far as I know, MythTV does not currently support recording TV from an internet source.

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>>>>What you wrote is a little confusing... Yes, MythTV can (it is the best way) get it's listings via the Internet. Yes, you can have multiple frontends attached to multiple TVs in your home.

Sorry for the confusion. I want to watch TV channels broadcast via internet like http://www.myeasytv.com, channelchooser, etc.,

>>>>I think you are asking about TV published over the internet? IPTV or similar?
Yes that is correct.

As far as I know, MythTV does not currently support recording TV from an internet source.

But can i watch different channel in different TV?

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No, MythTV doesn't allow you to record from an "Internet Channel". Yes, you can watch different channels on different TVs if you have multiple tuners.


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A correction, MythTV SVN head does mostly support IPTV, but I haven't tried yet with 0.21-fixes. See http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/m ... 267#287267 for some details

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One thing you can do, is to create a bunch of cron/scheduled jobs, each job would launch mplayer to play that stream with the dump stream option, thus recording a stream at a certain date/time.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:52 pm 
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I'm very much a newbee to this stuff too, but I came across this:

http://www.avenard.org/iptv/MythTV.html

Which explains how to do it. The instructions are a start but I had to do a lot of experimenting before things started working for me. Be prepared to get your hands dirty.

These instructions are specific for an ISP called TPG which operates in Australia. As an incentive to their customers TPG offers free IPTV. If you are not a TPG customer there is no way you can use their IPTV service. Normally this works using a web page and needs the VLC-plugin. There are about 35 channels which are about half English language and the rest are a mix of other languages. I think it is taken off a satellite feed. The English programs incude quite a mix of stuff from Al Jazeera to softcore porn.

I had a play with this last night and I was successful in getting the IPTV channels to show on my KM machine in exactly the same way as the normal free to air channels do. I haven't gotten the EPG to work, but then I haven't tried very hard yet either. I don't know if recording works (because I didn't test it last night), but pause, rewind, and fast-forward all work ok. I imagine recording will not work very well until I can get the EPG going anyway.

I'll keep the forum informed as I make progress.

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