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interesting. Perhaps if there was
enough willing to support the Pi
with some cash, then you never now
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I have tried Kodi, worked quite
well, but the interface was too
much of a culture change for all
of us in the house. At vote was
taken, and we all prefer the
simple familiar Mythfrontend. <br>
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<div>I just forced it. You get used to
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<div>I also tried Kodi, and while there is a
learning curve in getting used to the new UI, it's
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<div>The blocker for me was the slow 'skip ahead'
responsiveness. Myth Frontend is amazingly fast,
Kodi on Openelec/Pi2 was slow</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></span></div></blockquote><div>I wonder how much of that is related to the fact that Kodi doesn't use mythtv's seektable. I sometimes have slow skip-ahead on my primary frontend (full power pc with nvidia) on videos.</div><div><br></div><div>I suspect that we would find that a full frontend solution would have a faster seek than kodi for this reason alone.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><span class=""><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></span></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><span class=""><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>
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<div>I would definitely be willing to pitch in some
cash if it would help move a MythTV frontend
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<div>Given that an ECS Liva can run a MythTV frontend very
well, I have to wonder if the trade-offs in user
satisfaction and the effort required to make MythTV work
on a device that costs about half as much is worth it? </div></div></div></div></blockquote></span></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><span class=""><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>
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And if that $80 price is for real, that is actually very close to
the real price of a Raspberry Pi: $30 for the board, $10 for a case,
$10 for memory, $10 for micro-USB cable and power plug, $10 for HDMI
cable. <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is assuming that your actually going to buy all of that crap. Rather than a case, anchor the pi to a peice of sturdy cardboard using zipties then screw the cardboard to the vesa mount on the back of the tv. Or if you really must have a case (because you don't like to dust?), just make one out of cardstock using one of the printable templates online. Grab the memory card and charger off your old phone and your good to go. HDMI cables are a common cost for both devices... if your going to do the vesa mount thing, you can get really short HDMI cables for a couple bucks from adafruit or monoprice. I bought nothing more than the Pi2 and a 1 foot hdmi cable, and have enough old stuff laying around to be able to support 3-4 more of them.</div><div><br></div><div>One other thing that everyone is overlooking is that, if your tv doesn't have HDMI-CEC, you can wire a IR receiver directly to the GPIO pins on the PI and your good to go. The TSOP38238 is $2 at adafruit, pretty cheap compared to a usb receiver.</div><div><br></div><div>Finally, if you really insist on buying that stuff... you can get it much cheaper than $40... the case is the only component that you might spend $10 on.</div></div></div></div>