[mythtvnz] Raspberry Pi 4B FE & Freeview = issues?

[Fritz Hildebrand]

I tried the RPi4B with MythTV earlier this year and had the same issue.
Tried a lot of things but never got playback working as well as with Kodi.
Kodi just worked with Pi while MythTV didn’t.

On Sat, 26 Dec 2020 at 11:34 AM, Andrew Ruthven <andrew at etc.gen.nz> wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> Yesterday I spent a bunch of time on my MythTV setup to try and get a
> working FE again[0]. Thinking part of my problems could be related to
> the RPi3B I was using, I swapped it for a RPi4B.
>
> I have the RPi4B all up and running now, but it can't decode recordings
> from Freeview smoothly. This was more or less setting things up as
> described here: https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi .
>
> Playback is jerky, and not very pleasant to watch. The 4 CPU cores are
> all pegged at max, and even if I overclock the CPU to 2GHz, they're
> still pegged at ~100% and there is no noticeable improvement.
>
> Is anyone successfully using a RPi4B as a FE in NZ?
>
> Yes, I know that Kodi is an option, but I'd like to be able to run
> mythfrontend.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>
>
> [0] Earlier this year I upgraded from Stretch -> Buster and v28 (I
> think) -> v31 and the FE became unusable.
> --
> Andrew Ruthven, Wellington, New Zealand
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