[mythtv-users] Comcast Cable encrypted channels

[Andrew Gallatin]

Alan Marchiori [alan at alanmarian.com] wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Brian Wood<beww at beww.org> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 August 2009 10:52:43 Alan Marchiori wrote:
> >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Brian Wood<beww at beww.org> wrote:
> >> > On Tuesday 04 August 2009 10:18:35 Michael T. Dean wrote:
> >> >> And, since those of you who want to use Netflix Watch Instantly can go
> >> >> out an buy a Roku Netflix Player for $99 or less, there's absolutely no
> >> >> reason to put the MythTV project and developers in a dangerous position.
> >> >
> >> > Much less in some cases. The PlayON server will allow you to watch
> >> > Netflix on any UPnP/DLNA device, and costs $40, though it's often
> >> > available for less.
> >> >
> >> > The main problem is PlayON is Windows only.
> >>
> >> If you setup a PlayON server wouldn't that make it also possible to
> >> watch Netfilx et. al. from a mythfrontend? ?Are there any good
> >> upnp/dlna clients for linux that would be easy to integrate into
> >> mythfrontend (if it is not so already)?
> >
> > I've been looking for such a beast, and haven't found one yet.
> >
> > I'm certainly open to ideas, so far I've been using a PS3, an Xbox, a D-Link
> > DSM-520 and a Myka. All work quite well, but having it integrated into a Myth
> > frontend would be great.
> >
> 
> have you tried XBMC?  It seems to support both linux and is a UPnP
> client.  I'm thinking of trying it at least... then just put a button
> on the main myth menu to launch XBMC..?



I tried XBMC with a trial version of PlayON (which was running on XP
in a Virtual Box VM on my Hardy server) to stream Hulu.  It worked
tolerably well, except that fast foward and rewind did not work at
all. This is apparently a well known bug with PlayOn and XBMC.

I finally just decided to use Boxee for Hulu, until Hulu shuts them
out again.

Drew