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

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 3:57 PM, David Tildesley <davotnz at yahoo.co.nz> wrote:
> 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.
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There have been serious code improvements in the raspberry pi code
within xbmc in recentish times. People report good results from:

1. running off a good usb3 stick (even though the port is usb2,
apparently usb3 sticks go faster.)

2. Overclocking

3. Using latest version of xbmc - in particularly openelec I believe.

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> 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
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> The biggest issue I have is the length of a recording in progress dosn't get
> updated, hopefully being fixed in the next release
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> Also the EPG is terrible, mythfrontend/mythweb is much better
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> On 27 November 2013 22:23, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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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