<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><br></div>The biggest issue I have is the length of a recording in progress dosn't get updated, hopefully being fixed in the next release<br>
<br>Also the EPG is terrible, mythfrontend/mythweb is much better<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 November 2013 22:23, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com" target="_blank">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Sam Hadley-Jones <<a href="mailto:sam@hadley-jones.name">sam@hadley-jones.name</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:17 PM, David Tildesley <davotnz [at] yahoo> wrote:<br>
>> using the Mythtv pvr plugin. Picture is OK but pauses a lot @ 1920 * 1080.<br>
>> CPU running at about 75% Load averages are high (5.32, 5.25. 4.32). Crashed.<br>
><br>
> 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>
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</div>Openelec does seem to be the leading xbmc distro right now.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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> 1. Most modern TV remotes work out-of-the-box over HDMI-CEC.<br>
> 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>
> 3. No crashing.<br>
> 4. The Pi can only fast forward and rewind in chunks, set at 30secs. Slightly annoying but not a show-stopper.<br>
> 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>
> 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>
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</div>HD Homerun<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> 7. Aside from MythTV recordings, XBMC's movie, TV show and music cataloguing and UI is light years ahead of MythTV.<br>
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</div>+1<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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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>
> 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>
> 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>
> 11. Tons of apps for XBMC - Youtube, etc.<br>
><br>
> 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>
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</div>Good contribution thanks, someone who is using one of these in NZ<br>
conditions. Also if you are doing satellite as opposed to terrestrial<br>
you will need to buy the MPEG2 codec. It's ghastly expensive... all of<br>
GBP2.40 - and when I bought it they rounded down to the nearest GBP!<br>
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