(XBMC Addon) Grouping / Transcoding

[Swift_gti]

I have a few requests for the XBMC add on that hopefully are possible;

1) Allow specifying a group name to display channels from so that its possible to have a group for HD and a group for SD channels configured in NPVR and only display channels from either group in XBMC by specifying the group name in the add on (I assume its already possible to have a single channel in multiple groups in NPVR?)

2) Allow for a transcoding profile to be enabled in the XBMC add on (transcoding to be carried out server side) so that clients running on mobile devices can stream at lower quality rather than the original source format. (Only resizing should be needed, not changing to different formats)
The X-Newa add on already does this so I'm hopeful its not too hard to implement. As it would be great to have it in the official add on as the X-Newa version isn't using the PVR framework so not as integrated with XBMC.

I guess that if 2 were implemented then 1 isn't such a problem (as the server just streams HD in SD) so no need for grouping..

Thanks!

[mvallevand]

Unless I a misunderstand wish #1 since the channel groups you create in NextPVR are already available in XBMC there is nothing that sub needs to do. You can have the same channels in multiple groups and you can name them whatever you want.

Martin

[Swift_gti]

I can't check at the moment, but I don't think you can specify the group name to display channels from in the XBMC addon.

What I was suggesting was an option in the addon configuration, so that only that group gets 'transferred' to XBMC, the Mediaportal addon has this and it's really useful for displaying different channel lists on different devices.

[mvallevand]

Ok, yes it would be nice to not send all the groups. That's how I did it in x-newa so my slower clients don't get all the junk and duplicates. I thin I went even further so different user profiles on the same device can optionally use different groups.

Martin