Play Recordings On Windows

Introduction

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

Options

• 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.

• Boxee - Boxee will play MythTV natively, just add it as a source.

The following require Samba shares setup to view recordings

• Tapeworm - TapeWorm is a "parasitic" Windows front end for MythTV

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

Samba setup

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