[mythtv-users] Recommendations needed for new FE box

[Gerald Brandt]

On 2018-08-02 08:59 AM, Greg Oliver wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 11:59 AM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com 
> <mailto:gravityhammer at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 12:30 PM Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net
>     <mailto:greg at gregandeva.net>> wrote:
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>         On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 8:43 AM Phil Bridges
>         <gravityhammer at gmail.com <mailto:gravityhammer at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>             What's the downside of using the regular Mythfrontend on a
>             Pi 3?
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>         I sort of have it working. The playback and audio are OK, but
>         it stutters if I try to use time stretch. Since that is a
>         major feature for me when watching football or baseball games,
>         I have not yet replaced my Zotac ION front end with the Pi3
>         yet. I do have the decoder license in place, but nothing I
>         have tried has allowed time stretch to work correctly. The
>         Wiki page for using a Pi as a frontend says that time stretch
>         can work up to about 2x, but it has never worked right for me.
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>     Thanks.  I usually don't use the time stretch feature, so that
>     wouldn't be a deal breaker for me.
>
> Kodi is a great media player for sure, but MythTV's comm skipping is 
> the deal breaker for me.  1 button skip is something I refuse to give 
> up, and in Kodi, it is either auto-skip on or off.  If MythTV's 
> commflagging is off (and it often is), Kodi will just jump to the end 
> and quit playback with no way to correct it before it quits to the 
> menu.  I have discussed with the MythTV Plugin coder and he was trying 
> to get Kodi devs to implement the "notify" feature like MythTV has, 
> but it gained no traction, so I do not think it will land.
>
> That is my only deal breaker with using Kodi to watching recordings 
> with Kodi.
>
> -Greg
>

I dropped Mythfrontend a while back, and just use Kodi's step forward 
and back buttons to skip commercials. It's the same way I used 
Mythfrontend, since I found the commercial detection to be a bit flakey.

Gerald

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