ExportToGbpvr: a small MP TV server plugin

[Sheik Yerbouti]

This is not a Mediaportal promo thread, but there might be others out there like me who have a mixed PVR setup of Mediaportal and GBPVR. This plugin can be useful in that situation, because it exports every new TV recording in Mediaportal to the GBPVR database using the –import option of pvrx2.exe. People with an MediaMVP or PCH can view those recordings using the GBPVR recordings plugin.

Installation instructions:
1. Stop the tvserver
2. Place ExportToGbpvr.dll in the plugin directory of your TV server, usually C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\Plugins
3. Start the tvserver setup
4. Activate the ExportToGbpvr plugin.
5. Restart the tvserver

Known issues:
- Mediaportal doesn’t support the XMLTV node <sub-title>, so you’ll never get that in the GBPVR database with this plugin.
- The recording is added as soon as the recording starts, so it will be available in the category “Ready” and not in “Pending”, even though it is still recording. I think this is actually better, but some might disagree.
- The plugin uses the channel display name in Mediaportal, so this channel is added to the database if the same name isn’t already available in GBPVR. But it won’t be visible untill the recording service is restarted.

If anyone is wondering why I also use Mediaportal: it supports CI for my two FloppyDTV’s and Alphacrypts CAM’s, which means I can record two encrypted DVB-C channels at the same time, and even more if there are several channels on the same transponder, which usually is the case. I use GBPVR for my analog recordings.

I could have posted this on the Mediaportal forum, but the audience for this plugin, if it even excists, is probably on this forum.

Have fun