<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt">OK - good to know. I'm 0.26, terrestial and the test was full HD. I have to say it wasn't too far off coping - maybe overclocking the raspberry pi may make the difference.<br><br> <br><div><span><br></span></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Thursday, 28 November 2013 9:29 AM, Jason Taylor <killerkiwi2005@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv6831682787"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>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<br
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<br clear="none">Also the EPG is terrible, mythfrontend/mythweb is much better<br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv6831682787gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv6831682787yqt5245893966" id="yiv6831682787yqt22797"><div class="yiv6831682787gmail_quote">On 27 November 2013 22:23, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none">
<blockquote class="yiv6831682787gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="yiv6831682787im">On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Sam Hadley-Jones <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:sam@hadley-jones.name" target="_blank" href="mailto:sam@hadley-jones.name">sam@hadley-jones.name</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:17 PM, David Tildesley <davotnz [at] yahoo> wrote:<br clear="none">
>> using the Mythtv pvr plugin. Picture is OK but pauses a lot @ 1920 * 1080.<br clear="none">
>> CPU running at about 75% Load averages are high (5.32, 5.25. 4.32). Crashed.<br clear="none">
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> 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:<br clear="none">
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> 1. Most modern TV remotes work out-of-the-box over HDMI-CEC.<br clear="none">
> 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.<br clear="none">
> 3. No crashing.<br clear="none">
> 4. The Pi can only fast forward and rewind in chunks, set at 30secs. Slightly annoying but not a show-stopper.<br clear="none">
> 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.<br clear="none">
> 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?)<br clear="none">
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> 7. Aside from MythTV recordings, XBMC's movie, TV show and music cataloguing and UI is light years ahead of MythTV.<br clear="none">
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> 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.<br clear="none">
> 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.<br clear="none">
> 10. Android phones and tablets make great remotes using Yatze app over wifi. Perfect for my (older) bedroom TV that only has DVI in.<br clear="none">
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> 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!<br clear="none">
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