[mythtv-users] Cheap frontend for HD

[Gordon McCrae]

Personally I'd recommend the DroidBox T8, I have Acer Revo boxes with 
MythFrontend throughout the house (five of them), but as they are 
getting a little long in the tooth, and I already had to use my spare 
because the fan died on one of them, I started looking for alternatives.

After playing with KODI on my Android tablet, and satisfying myself that 
it was a usable replacement for MythFrontend, I bought a T8, and I must 
say it's much better for media only situations than the REVO. the menus 
are more responsive, videos start playing immediately instead of a 2-3 
second delay, scrolling through lists is much faster etc. All in all, I 
must say it's a fantastic little box, and only £99 here in the UK.  I 
bought mine with the air-mouse, which didn't turn out to be a good 
option for the WAF, as they struggle with the mouse mode, so I'd 
recommend existing users to stick with the  standard remote for now. 
I've configure KODI to use an MSQL database to store centralised 
video/music lists, and overall I find it to be very usable.

My family are still struggling with the fact that it's "different" from 
the rest of the frontends, so I plan to just install KODI on the REVOs 
and get rid of MythFrontend entirely. The plan is to use T8s where all 
that is needed is media / web browsing / general android like interface, 
and to keep REVOs for the kids' desktops where they actually need to 
login to a Linux machine for LibreOffice, Firefox etc.

Cheers
Gordon

On 19/05/15 15:39, Kevin Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:11 AM, Josu Lazkano <josu.lazkano at gmail.com 
> <mailto:josu.lazkano at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello list,
>
>     One of my frontend crash last night. It was a Nvidia ION device,
>     it use to work quiet good.
>
>     For other frobtend I am using ECS Liva, and it works well too. It
>     is cheaper than a Nvidia ION.
>
>     Anyone could recomend any other hardware to use as frontend.
>
>     What about Raspberry Pi 2? Or CubieBoard?
>
>     I will appreciate your help.
>
>     Best regards.
>
>     -- 
>     Josu Lazkano
>
>  I had been wondering the same thing myself.  I know there are many 
> options for tv playback.
>  But what would one suggest if they wanted the frontend to be capable 
> of playing any type of video thrown at it with high quality 
> deinterlacing?  4k excluded.
>
>
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