Mythtv/Plugins/MythStream

MythStream allows you to stream Music, News, & Videos, from almost any internet based source. Using mplayer and other open source software. You can receive this info using RSS, mpu, rm, mp3, and many other formats.

Prerequisites
Mythtv must be installed and working on the system. You will also need fftw2-devel.i386 installed yum -y install fftw2-devel.i386 perl-XML-DOM.noarch perl-XML-Simple.noarch

Download
The download page can be found here cd /tmp/svn/ rm -rf mythstream* wget http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~moongies/sw9vc4htz2/mythstream-v0.17_2.tar.gz tar -xzf mythstream-v0.17_2.tar.gz mv mythstream-0.17_2 mythstream rm -f mythstream-v0.17_2.tar.gz cd mythstream

Installation
First change the install directory in settings.pro Change the PREFIX to /usr/local vim settings.pro # Install in /usr/share/... or /usr/local/share/... ?   PREFIX = /usr/local

Next to compile & install MythStream run: qmake mythstream.pro make make install

Configuring
Add the following lines to /usr/local/share/mythtv/library.xml

or for the "classic" style add the lines to /usr/local/share/mythtv/musicmenu.xml STREAM Internet Streams PLUGIN mythstream mythstream Add the following lines to /usr/local/share/mythtv/media_settings.xml

or for the "classic" style add the lines to /usr/local/share/mythtv/music_settings.xml STREAM Stream Settings CONFIGPLUGIN mythstream mythstream

Configuring Themes
For the next part you will change the theme.xml file for you current theme.

example: /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/Titivillus/theme.xml  stream.png 60,30 example: /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/Titivillus/theme.xml  ui/button_off.png watermark/stream.png 0,0

Troubleshooting/Notes
To see what codec mplayer is using run mplayer -vc help


 * MythStream Parser's Info