TheGreenButton - Windows Media Center Forums

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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