EPG info sent to XBMC

[MR.K]

Sub,

Sorry to bother you about this but is it difficult to implement? Could I change the broadcast.strIconPath = ""? Or is it more involved then that?

The reason is that if I use EPG center or webgrab plus and pass the XMLTV file to NextPVR it could work, the first one would be able to download the icon file to a folder and add a folder path, webgrab plus I think would add a URL path but I am not sure if this would work in XBMC.

And as for the recordings, is it possible to download the artwork to the same folder and if no artwork take a screen shot of the movie and pass that as a strIconPath?

Or am I in too deep water? I am sure you understand I am not to familiar with the ins and outs/programing, but working hard to learn. :-)

Thanks

[sub]

Sorry to bother you about this but is it difficult to implement? Could I change the broadcast.strIconPath = ""? Or is it more involved then that?

At this stage I have nothing I can set that URL to. ie, NextPVR doesn't know the URL for any artwork for stuff in the EPG at the time it supplies EPG listings XBMC.

I did experiment with it to see what would be involved, but I was unable to get XBMC to ever use that URL. Does any know in what circumstances XBMC uses it?

Or am I in too deep water? I am sure you understand I am not to familiar with the ins and outs/programing, but working hard to learn. :-)

It is a big change, with potentially quite a lot of work required.

[mvallevand]

It's a quite a while before Kodi final, probably not a big rush to think too much about this for six months.

Martin

[MR.K]

Hi Martin,

Is it going to be a big change in Kodi, compared to Gotham release when it comes to PVR's handling?

[mvallevand]

By Kodi I really should have added Helix. If Frodo to Gotham is any indication I doubt PVR handling will change much but anything that improves mpeg-ts playback like a ffmpeg change is a step forward.

Martin

[MR.K]

At this stage I have nothing I can set that URL to. ie, NextPVR doesn't know the URL for any artwork for stuff in the EPG at the time it supplies EPG listings XBMC.

I did experiment with it to see what would be involved, but I was unable to get XBMC to ever use that URL. Does any know in what circumstances XBMC uses it?

It is a big change, with potentially quite a lot of work required.

Excuse me my ignorance. :o

I am just throwing ideas and I do understand it might not be that easy.

But in XBMC's "programme info" you pass ex the show's info and XBMC uses the $INFO[ListItem.Plot] to show it, the same could be done if the path (URL or a path to a picture on the computer) could be passed to $INFO[ListItem.Icon], XBMC would read the url, (another problem I have to find out is where and how XBMC cache the picture if they are not local).

This guy has done it http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=201981, even if he is using a database to import xml to it. And it looks like the guys on WMC is on to it as well http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=186486

[mvallevand]

To me the problem with the WMC solutions for Win7/8 (mc2xml and WMC plugin) is that their legality is cloudy . The could provide access to image URLs served by Microsoft but the ToS would likely not allow XBMC to access them

Martin

[sub]

I'm not really interested in a solution that gets the relies on artwork URLs being provided in the EPG, since the majority of people will not have it in their EPG.

If I was going to do anything with it, I'd just use some generic URL pointed back at the NextPVR server, and if that URL was called, it'd attempt to find the artwork at that time, in the same way the NextPVR TV Guide does. This of course works on the assumption that XBMC only calls the URL for shows you try to view, rather than wanting the artwork for everything in the EPG (since it'd perform like crap if that was the case)

I'd tried putting in a URL like this, but as mentioned above, XBMC never called it. I'm not familiar enough with the XBMC side of things to know how to get XBMC to request the image at that URL.

[MR.K]

To me the problem with the WMC solutions for Win7/8 (mc2xml and WMC plugin) is that their legality is cloudy . The could provide access to image URLs served by Microsoft but the ToS would likely not allow XBMC to access them

Martin

Hi Martin,

Don't really get it, to my understanding the ServerWMC grabs the "ImageUIrl" (url path) property from the xmltv file, and will then send that back to XBMC as the "strIconPath", it only send the path to the file and most likely a path from the TVDB depending on the source that the xmltv grabber use.

[mvallevand]

Hi Martin,

Don't really get it, to my understanding the ServerWMC grabs the "ImageUIrl" (url path) property from the xmltv file, and will then send that back to XBMC as the "strIconPath", it only send the path to the file and most likely a path from the TVDB depending on the source that the xmltv grabber use.

My understanding is ServerWMC talks to WMC and uses Microsoft's EPG data source

Martin