[mythtvnz] MythBox XMBC/Raspberry PI

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Jason Taylor <killerkiwi2005 at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> 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


I have xbmc on my samsung galaxy s3. Works well, but the mythtv pvr addon
is not included. Many other pvr addons are, but not the myth one.
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