[mythtv-users] MythTV Raspberry Pi2 frontend testers

[Kingsley Turner]

On 31/12/15 17:36, rob e wrote:
> firstly, thanks Lawrence for all your hard work ... it's really coming 
> along nicely, I managed to install Myth 27 on the latest Raspbian-Jessie 
> (installed via noobs)

Here here!

I've spent some many hours playing with Mythfrontend and the RPi today.

I have the "TV" mythbox which is BE+FE, and now the rPi frontend on another 
TV connected to the backend over wired gigabit ethernet.
I recently upgraded the BE box, it's a reasonably powerful machine.


Playback of live TV and Recorded TV (which is MPEG2) worked fine, except 
that it was really blocky - like a heavily compressed youtube video.

Some of the h.264 MKV packed videos I tried were a bit hit & miss. One 
played perfectly, with both sound and subtitles.  Another was so jerky, I 
was getting less than a frame a second.

However the #1 problem was browsing the "videos" section.
There's about 12 directories in my upper-level video tree, but it took the 
RPi about 40 seconds to bring up the nav-panel.
If I went into a subdirectory of this (which has ~317 folders) it took 
around 2 minutes to come back.

What exactly is going on during this browse?

I will test some more over the next few days.

But overall it's looking really promising.

cheers,
-kt