[mythtv-users] Thinking of moving on from MythTV :-( Any suggestions? (for the UK)

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Mon Jan 2 20:35:59 UTC 2017


Hoi Joseph,

Monday, January 2, 2017, 9:18:36 PM, you wrote:

> Plex has DVR capability as long as your using HD HomeRun tuners,
> and I believe SilconDust has their own DVR software if you don't want to pay for Plex.



> MediaPortal and NextPVR may also be worth looking at.


> Tvheadend is interesting in that it just streams from your tuner...
> I don't believe it will record.  But Kodi does support it, so you
> could at least watch live tv on any device that supports Kodi (just about everything).


> All said, I doubt that your going to be satisfied with anything on
> the market if you have had a functional Mythtv system in the past...
> they all seem to lack the flexiblity and power of mythtv.



> Correcting myself, Tvheadend does offer scheduling and recording
> capabilities... so it may be worth looking at?  

One downside, it does not store the programmedata. So you must run
your grabber for every session to get the data. It in all is very
limited.

Tot mails,
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