[mythtvnz] Raspbmc doesn't quite cut it as a mythtv frontend.

[Jason Taylor]

The plugin seems pretty good for me (only have dvb-s though) I did make the
mistake of upgrading to 0.27 which isn't support be the latest stable
release

The biggest issue I have is the length of a recording in progress dosn't
get updated, hopefully being fixed in the next release

Also the EPG is terrible, mythfrontend/mythweb is much better


On 27 November 2013 22:23, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Sam Hadley-Jones <sam at hadley-jones.name>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:17 PM, David Tildesley <davotnz [at] yahoo>
> wrote:
> >> using the Mythtv pvr plugin. Picture is OK but pauses a lot @ 1920 *
> 1080.
> >> CPU running at about 75% Load averages are high (5.32, 5.25. 4.32).
> Crashed.
> >
> > I have quite a different experience with my Raspberry Pis over the past
> 6 months. I have two running Openelec (another XBMC distro). After flashing
> Openelec, plugging it in and booting, I gave it the backend IP and I was
> MythTVing in under 5 minutes. A few points:
>
> Openelec does seem to be the leading xbmc distro right now.
>
> >
> > 1. Most modern TV remotes work out-of-the-box over HDMI-CEC.
> > 2. No tweaks required to get up and running. As long as the Pi knows
> about the backend, you'll be watching recordings in no time.
> > 3. No crashing.
> > 4. The Pi can only fast forward and rewind in chunks, set at 30secs.
> Slightly annoying but not a show-stopper.
> > 5. There appears to be some network lag - probably CPU bound. The result
> is that sometimes you can't fastforward a recording immediately after
> starting playback as the network buffer is empty. This appears to be
> actively worked on as it's improved in recent releases.
> > 6. XBMC recovers well from bitstream corruption. I have a
> cheap-and-nasty USB DVB-T dongle with poor sensitivity the throws in
> garbage frames every once in a while. (planning on replacing, btw. Any
> suggestions?)
>
> HD Homerun
>
> > 7. Aside from MythTV recordings, XBMC's movie, TV show and music
> cataloguing and UI is light years ahead of MythTV.
>
>
> +1
>
>
> > 8. With moderate overclocking of the Pi (just a settings change), I can
> play my Blu-ray full stream backups (made using MakeMKV) from the backend
> server with no trouble.
> > 9. HTS TVHeadend can be "turned on" in openelec for a total backend and
> fronted solution on one Pi. I'm keen to test how well this really works as
> I'm a little sceptical about the Pi's ability to record multiple streams
> while I watch a Blu-ray sized movie. I'll get onto this once I have a tuner
> dongle free. HTS lacks some scheduling and management features so I don't
> think I'll switch just yet.
> > 10. Android phones and tablets make great remotes using Yatze app over
> wifi. Perfect for my (older) bedroom TV that only has DVI in.
> > 11. Tons of apps for XBMC - Youtube, etc.
> >
> > All-in-all a pretty positive experience with Raspberry Pi frontends and,
> most importantly, WAF is maintained. I've been running MythTV for 7 years
> and toying with the XBMC MythTV plug-in for a few years. It's at a point
> now where its mature enough to ditch the MythTV frontend. Finally, a
> frontend under 5W of power and $60!
>
> Good contribution thanks, someone who is using one of these in NZ
> conditions. Also if you are doing satellite as opposed to terrestrial
> you will need to buy the MPEG2 codec. It's ghastly expensive... all of
> GBP2.40 - and when I bought it they rounded down to the nearest GBP!
>
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