[mythtv-users] Raspberry Pi frontend via Raspbmc - first try report

[Jon Heizer]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Tyler T <tylernt at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > 4. Moving around the mythtv pvr plugin screens is painfully slow;
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>> I had the same experience, however XBMC has native myth:// protocol
>> support so you can bypass the plugin slowness and just use the normal
>> media browser interface to watch recordings. XBMC apparently doesn't
>> support my old 0.23 BE but if you want to try it with your newer BE,
>> I'd love to hear if it works.
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> I have not tried that yet, although I have used it on x86 machines and it
> works but i don't like the interface much. Wouldn't be nice enough to throw
> out my mythfrontend.
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> Of all of them I think mythbox has the nicest interface, I don't much like
> the XBMC PVR interface either.
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>> > 7. When it doesn't crash it renders the recorded TV files well enough
>> and
>> > without significant breaking of sweat,
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>> I used analog audio and got some loud audio pops when
>> starting/stopping/skipping playback. You using analog or digital?
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> I am using HDMI, so digital. I have heard the analogue output from RPi is
> pretty hairy in other software as well.
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> One option might be an external USB sound card. Not all work though
> apparently.
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I decided to pull my RPi back out this weekend and give this a try again on
a rarely used TV.  I was able to get everything working using the myth://
and the standard xbmc browser.  With the mpeg2 license I can play both my
OTA and HDPVR recordings.  I do get some buffering lag.  It doesn't seem
like the network can keep up.  I know there are USB NIC issues and I have
an older board so maybe I am one.  Haven't researched it all yet.  Besides
that HDMI audio worked, WM Remote worked.  Did you guys get yours to work
w/o lag?  Did you use myth:// or NFS?

Jon
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