[mythtvnz] recommendations for front end...

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 12:21 PM, worik <worik.stanton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/01/15 11:22, Jason Taylor wrote:
>> For a front end only a raspberrypi is good, can use the tv remote and uses
>> very little power, If you want to stream content (netflix tvnz ondemand
>> etc) then an intel NUC box is good
>
> Interesting.  I have both.
>
> I could not get Raspberry PI working with Myth.  Is there instructions
> some place?

http://kodi.wiki

I don't believe there is a mythfrontend for pi, but kodi and
pvr.mythtv certainly works.

>
> My NUC is an absolute piece of shit!  I have a *lot* of ram and 30GB of
> SSD and it runs like a steamroller in 6 inches of mud.  A waste of money
> it was.  Does work as a front end but for what it is it is way way over
> priced.

You would I think be the only person I have ever seen with this
opinion - I suspect operator error, or you are running it as something
other than a media PC.


>
> What about a Beaglebone?
>

What about it? Does it have some standard API into an accelerated
video playback engine?

> W
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