[mythtvnz] Media Player Frontends?

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Nick & Ann Read <nick.read at engineer.com> wrote:
> An update in case anyone was interested. I managed to get on of the Hisense
> units (MP800H) for $50 off TradeMe so thought it was worth getting to
> experiment. After a bit of playing around with MythTV recorded HD samples,
> and a firmware update, here are my conclusions:
>
> Pros:
> Very quiet and power efficient front end (apparently <18W but I didn't
> measure)
> Cheap :-)
> Plays TV3 and TVNZ HD very well, no artifacts, sound was fine (analog, HDMI
> or optical SPDIF). No issue with MPEG2 from DVB-S or PVR350.
> Even played the AVCHD lite video files from my Panasonic TZ7 (ZS3)
> Works off SMB network shares or uPnP
> Runs embedded Linux, so in theory at least should be expandable/flexible in
> features
>
> Cons:
>
> No myth frontend scheduling, recording categories, deleting files etc
> Playing off SMB shares, it won't read symbolic links (eg the pretty
> directory, but tv & video recordings are otherwise fine)
> Playing off uPnP, it can't jump in time, REW, or FFW beyond 2x. Didn't work
> with Myth uPnP but FUPPES was OK.
> No jump during playback (eg 30s forward, or 10s back)
>
> The last point is pretty much a killer for me right now. Assuming I find a
> way around the symbolic links issue (any ideas?), it is possible to FFW up
> to 32x, or jump to specific times in the file, but it really sucks compared
> to just skipping forward a few times to get past adverts.

I disagree, I use sticky keys in my frontends now, which speeds past
the ads. I prefer it to a jump.

As for symlinks, is the device mounting via the cifs module or the smbfs module?