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Jarod Wilson wrote: > Just remembered there's a totem mythtv plugin... Haven't got around to > trying it out myself... Thanks for the tip. Not a lot of info available about it. Found some screen shots here: http://www.mythbuntu.org/image/tid/9 Discussion here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=682361 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4904470 (Mostly people justifying the usefulness of the feature (who apparently don't know you can run MythTV front-end in a small window so it doesn't take over your desktop), or complaining that it isn't working for them.) Bugs about the MythTV plugin being absent from the Ubuntu build here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/278748 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/365750 And finally a PPA containing a Totem build with it: https://launchpad.net/~robert-pobice/+archive/ppa After installing that, the plugin does show up, but it doesn't retrieve any shows, and doesn't seem to report any relevant errors to the console. As information on the plugin is sparse, it's hard to say for sure, but it appears the earlier versions required setting values in gconf to specify your MythTV server and database credentials. Release notes on the more recent Ubuntu build claims config is unnecessary and that UPnP is now used. (I though MythTV had its own autodiscovery protocol independent of UPnP.) So it may not be working for the same reason that the Totem UPnP plugin isn't working. I tried supplying the manual config, but that didn't help. Oh well, it was worth a try. It seems my MythTV client has resumed working as mysteriously as it stopped, so I'll shelf my hunt for a UPnP client for the time being. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/
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