[mythtvnz] Raspbmc doesn't quite cut it as a mythtv frontend.

[David Tildesley]

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.

 





On Thursday, 28 November 2013 9:29 AM, Jason Taylor <killerkiwi2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
 
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

The biggest issue I have is the length of a recording in progress dosn't get updated, hopefully being fixed in the next release

Also the EPG is terrible, mythfrontend/mythweb is much better




On 27 November 2013 22:23, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Sam Hadley-Jones <sam at hadley-jones.name> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:17 PM, David Tildesley <davotnz [at] yahoo> wrote:
>>> using the Mythtv pvr plugin. Picture is OK but pauses a lot @ 1920 * 1080.
>>> CPU running at about 75% Load averages are high (5.32, 5.25. 4.32). Crashed.
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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:
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>Openelec does seem to be the leading xbmc distro right now.
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>> 1. Most modern TV remotes work out-of-the-box over HDMI-CEC.
>> 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.
>> 3. No crashing.
>> 4. The Pi can only fast forward and rewind in chunks, set at 30secs. Slightly annoying but not a show-stopper.
>> 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.
>> 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?)
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>HD Homerun
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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.
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>+1
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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.
>> 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.
>> 10. Android phones and tablets make great remotes using Yatze app over wifi. Perfect for my (older) bedroom TV that only has DVI in.
>> 11. Tons of apps for XBMC - Youtube, etc.
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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!
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>Good contribution thanks, someone who is using one of these in NZ
>conditions. Also if you are doing satellite as opposed to terrestrial
>you will need to buy the MPEG2 codec. It's ghastly expensive... all of
>GBP2.40 - and when I bought it they rounded down to the nearest GBP!
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