Intro blah blah blah blah
Important notes about MediaPortal
Any important notes in context to XBMC, like limitations, pros, cons, whatever. Nothing too in depth, but something that people might want to be aware of before they choose this backend.
Setting up MediaPortal
- Link(s) to (or have a copy of on a subpage) backend setup guide
Connect XBMC to MediaPortal
- Rest of page will be about setting up this backend's PVR add-on
Connection
- Mediaportal Hostname
- The hostname or IP address of the server where the MediaPortal TV-Server is installed. Use 'localhost' or '127.0.0.1' when the TV-Server software is installed on the same machine.
- Default value: 127.0.0.1
- Mediaportal Kodi plugin Port
- The default port for the TVServerKodi plugin. Only change this setting if you have changed the TCP port on the TVServerKodi plugin settings.
- Default value: 9596
- Connection timeout(s)
- Timeout on Kodi<->TVServerKodi communication. After the selected timeout, has elapsed, the addon won't wait any longer for an answer from TVServerKodi and abort the selected action. Bottleneck is the timeshift start for TV channels. This can take a long time due to card initialization, so don't make this value too small.
- Default value: 10 (s)
- Windows user account (SMB)
- User name for accessing the Recording and Timeshift shares when running Kodi on a non-Windows system like: Linux/OSX
- Default value: <empty>
- Windows password (SMB)
- Password for accessing the Recording and Timeshift shares when running Kodi on a non-Windows system like: Linux/OSX
- Default value: <empty>
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MediaPortal
- Free-to-air only
- Fetch/show only Free-to-air channels from the MediaPortal TV-Server backend
- Default value: true
- Include Radio
- Fetch also radio channels
- Default value: true
- Import only TV Channels from group
- Allows you to fetch only the TV channels in a specific MediaPortal TVServer group. E.g. you can create a "Kodi" group at the TVServer side that contains only the TV channels that you want to appear at the Kodi side. Leave this field empty when you want to import all channel groups.
- Default value: <empty>
- Import only Radio Channels from group
- Allows you to fetch only the radio channels in a specific MediaPortal TVServer group. E.g. you can create a "Kodi" group at the TVServer side that contains only the radio channels that you want to appear at the Kodi side. Leave this field empty when you want to import all channel groups.
- Default value: <empty>
- EPG: Read genre strings (slow)
- Translate the EPG genre strings from MediaPortal into Kodi compatible genre id's to get a colored EPG timeline view.
Depending on your EPG source, MediaPortal may return strings in your local language. In this case, you can skip the genre translation using this option. The addon translates only English genre strings to Kodi genre id's. You can extend the translation table by extending the following PVR addon file: pvr.mediaportal.tvserver\resources\genre_translation.xml
- Default value: false (= don't read and translate the genre strings)
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Playback
- Streaming method
- There are two ways to read the Live TV and recording streams from the TV-Server backend: 1) direct file access and 2) using an RTSP stream. The "TSReader" option reads directly from the timeshift buffer or recording file (fastest) using a stripped version of MediaPortal's own TSReader filter. The "ffmpeg" option uses an RTSP stream for playback (slow channel switching, but it can pass firewalls with proper settings).
- Default value: TSReader
- Use RTSP streaming
- The TSReader should use the Live555 library to read an RTSP stream instead of accessing the timeshift buffer file/recording file directly.
- This requires the PVR addon to be recompiled and linked against Live555. This is not enabled for Frodo!!
- Depends on: Streaming method=TSReader
- Default value: false
- Fast channel switching (don't stop timeshift)
- Don't stop an existing timeshift session when switching to a new channel. This makes channel switching faster but might also break channel switching.
- Warning: Enabling this option will probably break SD<->HD channel swithing and switching to channels with different audio/video streams and codecs. Detection of the new streams at the Kodi side may fail because the PVR addon does not know exactly where the beginning of the new channel is inside the timeshift buffer file.
- Depends on: Streaming method=TSReader
- Default value: false
- Wait time after turning a channel (ms)
- Use this options to give the TVServer some time to fill the timeshift buffer before Kodi starts playing the selected channel. You can increase this value if you are experiencing frequent buffering after tuning a new channel.
- Default value: 0
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