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Getting started / Modifying TV Guide

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Post by CanadaJimmy » Fri Jul 18, 2014 7:54 pm

Hi all,

I would like to learn where to start with modifying Windows Media Center - what scripting and modification methods are available?
The reason is I have a project idea I would like to do using Windows Media Center (7 or 8, though I have 7 installed right now)

1. Firstly, I would like to enable the TV guide without having a tuner installed or connected to the network.

2. I want to populate the guide with my own information, and then have it play back an RTMP stream when viewing the channel. (I may be able to re-encode it to another format if needed)

3. I would then like to mix these streams with live OTA streams from an HDHomeRun device.

Is any of this possible! Thanks

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Post by barnabas1969 » Fri Jul 18, 2014 8:42 pm

Yes, you can do all of that with DVBLogic software.

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Post by CanadaJimmy » Fri Jul 18, 2014 9:55 pm

barnabas1969 wrote:Yes, you can do all of that with DVBLogic software.
Very cool software I have to say! Unfortunately it doesn't support RTMP
https://forum.dvblogic.com/viewtopic.php?p=80914

Would like to avoid transcoding if possible, though it's beginning to look like the only way would be to convert the RTMP stream into MPEG 2 TS.

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Post by barnabas1969 » Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:13 am

Oops. Sorry. I thought you meant RTSP. Why would you want RTMP?

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Post by CanadaJimmy » Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:31 am

Web streams like USTVNow use RTMP and I would like to add these to the guide to "top-up" over the air programming with some of USTVNow's premium channels.

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Post by barnabas1969 » Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:36 am

Are you sure their stream isn't encrypted (RTMPE)? If so, then you won't find a way to get that stream in Media Center.

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Post by CanadaJimmy » Sun Jul 20, 2014 3:36 am

Yep an example URL is rtmp://lv1.ustvnow.com:1935/dvrtest/comedycentral3 - they don't need RTMPE because it's based on signing up and they block unauthorized viewership based on IP.

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Post by barnabas1969 » Sun Jul 20, 2014 3:52 am

Well, sorry then. If you can find a way to translate RTMP to RTSP, or if you can convince the DVBLogic folks to support RTMP ($$$), then you'll be in business.

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Post by CanadaJimmy » Sun Jul 20, 2014 4:35 am

I guess that makes sense - Windows Media Player doesn't support RTMP so there's no reason WMC would.

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