[mythtv-users] Raspberry Pi now ships with 512MB RAM

[Monkey Pet]

I think we are very close to being able to use xbmc with mythtv 0.26.
 There is active development with this month's development cycling on
bringing PVR frontend support to xbmc. clibmyth is being updated to support
myth 0.26.  Also the developer of the xbmc mythtv addon posted that the
mythtv 0.26 support is almost there.  So once it has been merged into xbmc
mainline and the Xbian.org folks build a new xbmc binary, I think we might
have a usable xbmc-frontend for myth on the raspberry pi.

It would be awesome to be able to plug your pi into your usb port on your
TV (not recommended because of power needs), connect the HDMI and be able
to use it to watch shows with commercial skip!  All for $35!

I pasted this from the xbmc wiki:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=PVR

MythTV <http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=PVR/MythTV>

   - Backend OS: Linux
   - Homepage: mythtv.org <http://www.mythtv.org/>
   - Addon maintainers: fetzerch, janbar, tsp, dteirney
   - Addon Forum support topic: XBMC
forum<http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=110694>
   - Backend Installation: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Packages
   - Note that the MythTV add-on is not yet merged into the main XBMC PVR
   Addons Repo, but the code is available in fetzerch's branch:
   https://github.com/fetzerch/xbmc-pvr-addons



On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Patrick Ouellette <pat at flying-gecko.net>wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 03:54:51PM +0100, Richard Morton wrote:
> >
> > Have any of you used xbmc on a r-pi?
>
> I have.  I bought two of them to play with.
>
> > All the people I know that bought them for this purpose gave up on them
> not
> > because it can't playback the video but because the UI was tortuous to
> > navigate. Before asking people to write complex code I suggest a few
> people
> > give it a try with a large database of media and report back....
>
> Before you condemn it, try it.  It is not "tortuous" just different from
> the
> MythTV experience.  Video playback on the 256MB units I have is fine with
> the MPEG2 codec.  The UI and player support libcec which is nice too.
>
> My only complaint about the experience is the lack of MythTV frontend
> features
> (expected of course) and live TV from my 0.26 backend.
>
> If the MythTV frontend could be ported to the 512MB Pi I suspect initial
> performance would be similar (with the less memory intensive themes) to
> what the frontend had when I first started playing with MythTV (AMD 3000+
> single core CPU, XVMC, Qt Painter).  This would put it a notch or so above
> my Verizon FiOS SD boxes (and possibly my HD box).
>
> Pat
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