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XBMC + MediaPortal TV Server

I’m working on adding TV support and making my XBMC installation a true Media Centre (including PVR support). The thing about XBMC is that sadly it doesn’t support Live TV features by default but there are ways to get live tv support. Here’s my journey to get UK FTA channels working with XBMC using:

- Windows 7 64bit
- Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-HD-S2 DVB-S2 TV Card
- Sky dish
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XBMC Movie sorting and “The”

When I started to play with XBMC and imported all of my DVDs they were sorted with all “The ..” under T.

This isn’t surprising however there is a simple way to make the sorting ignore “The ..”.

Just create a file called advancedsettings.xml in your XBMC/userdata folder. This folder is app specific, more about this here.


<advancedsettings>
	<sorttokens>
		<token>the</token>
	</sorttokens>
</advancedsettings>

And here’s how it’s with the file:

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Logitech Harmony One

I bought a Logitech Harmony One remote for our Home Media Centre/Theatre/Blu-ray/Sky HD mutant setup to replace 5 remotes with one and had a lot troubles getting it to work with our crappy tv which is Philips 42PFL5522D/05. If you own this tele and you just bought Harmony One save your self some time and choose 42PFL5522D and not 42PFL5522D/05 as model of TV when setting the remote up. This will make switching inputs work.

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