Difference between revisions of "Play Recordings On Windows"

Revision as of 07:11, 15 September 2009

Once MythTV has been setup there are a few options to allow playback of TV recordings from the Windows platform.

MythTv Player - MythTv Player is a free and simple Myth client and player for Windows. This project is dead unless a new developer takes over.

XBMC Xbox media center is now available on windows, and can play recordings and live tv. Plugin for XBMC is here. Another plugin is here.

MythTV Windows Port - The MythTV frontend can now be compiled and run on Windows.

The following require Samba shares setup to view recordings

note tapeworm doesn't work with multiple Storage pools and project is not active anymore

Play_Recordings_On_Windows_From_MythWeb using Samba shares, VLC and the Firefox Launchy add-on
Samba using mythrename.pl to generate human readable filenames using Media Player Classic Homecinema to playback recordings

example samba share /etc/samba/smb.conf

[tvrecordings]
       comment = mythtv tv recordings
       path = /video/tvrec

ensure world has read access to files

 chmod +r /video/tvrec

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 *[http://www.sudu.dk/mythtvplayer/ MythTv Player] - MythTv Player is a free and simple Myth client and player for Windows.  This project is dead unless a new developer takes over.
-*[http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Xbox_Frontend#Running_XBMC_with_native_MythTV_Support XBMC] Xbox media center is now available on windows, and can play recordings and live tv.  Plugin for XBMC is [http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmcmythtv/ here]
+*[http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Xbox_Frontend#Running_XBMC_with_native_MythTV_Support XBMC] Xbox media center is now available on windows, and can play recordings and live tv.  Plugin for XBMC is [http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmcmythtv/ here].  Another plugin is [http://code.google.com/p/mythbox/ here].
 *[[Windows Port|MythTV Windows Port]] - The MythTV frontend can now be compiled and run on Windows.