[mythtv-users] Recommendations for Myth Frontend on Raspberry Pi?

[Josh Rosenberg]

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> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 22:42:56 -0700
> From: Tom Harris <thom.j.harris at gmail.com>
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>         Raspberry       Pi?
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> Just following up with a status update after a few weeks usage.   I
> switched my Pi3 from LibreEelec+Kodi to mythfrontend and I?ve been very
> happy with it.  The UI is quite snappy and the skip ahead / skip back is
> lightning fast, as one expects with mythfrontend.     It?s hard to beat the
> Pi3 in terms of size/heat/power/noise/availability/cost for a MythTV
> frontend.
>
> A few notes/comparisons to the Kodi I had been using for the last year+:
>
> - Video Playback: Both are quite good.  I sometimes notice some judder in
> mythfrontend on horizontal pans (e.g. sporting events, tracking players
> down the court).  But, it?s subtle enough that I question whether it?s just
> me, or the video wasn?t totally smooth.

This is a known issue. See https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12907 .
It's the main reason I stopped using an RPi for a frontend, opting
instead for a used Zotac ZBox from ebay (with an NVIDIA video
chipset). Perhaps this will be solved by the RPi 4.

Josh