[mythtvnz] MythBox XMBC/Raspberry PI

[Jason Taylor]

On 7 December 2012 22:11, Hadley Rich <hads at nice.net.nz> wrote:

> On 01/11/12 10:58, Hadley Rich wrote:
>
>> I compiled this for a look. It's a good start but still needs a bit of
>> work.
>>
>> It shows duplicate channels in the LiveTV view for channels from
>> multiple sources.
>>
>> It also takes a really long time (tens of seconds) to load a recordings
>> folder with more than a few recordings in it. Seems to be opening
>> multiple FileTransfer connections to the backend for each recording file.
>>
>
> I've just upgraded to XBMC Frodo beta 2 which again includes the Myth PVR
> support. It's much faster than last time I tested it - they appear to have
> fixed the multiple connections.
>
> Starting to be a good contender for replacing mythfrontend. LiveTV and
> recordings work very well. Still has duplicate channels for multiple
> sources though.
>
> Now I just need to figure out why playback of SD has gone downhill with
> dropped frames, HD is still good which is a bit backwards (running on ION2).
>

The plugin is still to slow on my pi (I havn't tried beta 3 yet), but
playing back the videos (DVB-S so SD) works great, also manages the HD
files I do have play fine.

You still cant argue with the price but one of those andoid boxs with xbmc
(xbmc for andoid is in beta) on it might be the future

Cheers

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