[mythtvnz] recommendations for front end...

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Kenneth Dixon <kenneth.b.dixon at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 7 January 2015 at 12:21, 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?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> What about a Beaglebone?
>
>
> There are a lot of android devices out which will work as a MythTV frontend
> if combined with Kodi (XBMC) and the the cmyth PVR plugin:
> http://www.dx.com/s/google+tv
> I haven't tried it with one of these stand alone boxes, but works fine with
> a tablet + HDMI out.
>
> You also get the native Netflix app.
>

Bad choice for a country where we have 25/50Hz TV broadcasts. Android
does not do frame rate switching, rendering it awful for most PAL
usage.


> Ken.
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