[mythtvnz] recommendations for front end...

[Steve Holdoway]

On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 07:53 +1300, Kenneth Dixon wrote:
> 
> 
> On 7 January 2015 at 18:03, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>         On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Kenneth Dixon
>         <kenneth.b.dixon at gmail.com> wrote:
>         >
>         >
>         > 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.
>         
> Ah I see. Have to admit I haven't noticed the issue, but the android
> tablet is not my main front end.
> There was talk of Android 5.0 solving the issue, but it doesn't look
> like it has. Maybe a future version.
> Still pretty handy if you already own a tablet.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Ken.
> 

Would a quad core ( thread? ) zotac @ 1.6GHz atom work well? It has built in Nvidia ION graphics, and HDMI out...



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