[phens]

I think "Live TV" should not necessary mean "PVR", IPTV sources like :
- HDHomeRUN
- SAP Stream
- Stream from DVB>IP Bridge like getstream, mumudvb or dvblast
Should be accessible into live TV menu without PVR backend.

Thanks

[TugboatBill]

You can watch live TV now with a HDHR and no PVR. Check out the wiki.

[Jezz_X]

Indeed mythtv tvheadend and hdhomerun can all already stream to the current dharma xbmc

[phens]

Hi,
I was not really clear in my preceding post.

My thought is :

- "Live TV" menu should be accessible without having a PVR backend installed and configured.

- "Live TV" menu should contain "TV Channel" and "TV GUIDE" submenu accessible with a PVR backend installed and configured.

- "TV Channel" submenu may have different sources type : SAP Stream, HDHomeRUN, HTTP stream URL, RTSP stream URL, or PVR backend (so SAP and HDHomeRun should move from Video>Files to Live TV menu)

- "TV GUIDE" submenu may have different sources type : Now/Next directly from MPEG TS EIT, Now/Next from PVR backend, Full Guide directcly from XMLTV file (tv_grab_...), Full Guide from PVR backend.

To resume this, I'll say : Live TV menu should be usable without PVR back.

[rupert]

If I'm reading you right, what you want is a channel guide & TV like interface for the built in HDHomeRun (or other streaming sources) allready in XBMC?

IANA Developer, but wouldn't it make more sense to move these features from XBMC itself & re-implement them as a very limited PVR plugins?

Does the PVR system allow multiple PVR plugins at the same time?

[Taleteller]

From what I have seen it is possible to have several plugins enabled at once. Yet I doubt its aware to have EPG for channels not included in the channel list itself. So you may have several sources, but you also may have duplicate "stations".

[opdenkamp]

something like this is already planned, but probably won't be arriving in mainline any time soon. don't have the time now.