Getting started / Modifying TV Guide
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Getting started / Modifying TV Guide
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
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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Yes, you can do all of that with DVBLogic software.
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Very cool software I have to say! Unfortunately it doesn't support RTMPbarnabas1969 wrote:Yes, you can do all of that with DVBLogic software.
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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Oops. Sorry. I thought you meant RTSP. Why would you want RTMP?
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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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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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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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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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I guess that makes sense - Windows Media Player doesn't support RTMP so there's no reason WMC would.