[mythtv-users] Recommendation for a Cheap Frontend.
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Feb 1 15:24:58 UTC 2013
On 02/01/2013 05:40 AM, Martin Bene wrote:
> How many recordings do you have on the myth backend? I've just done some experiments with backend 0.26 and XBMC Myth PVR Plugin; admittedly, my system has a fairly large number of recordings (~ 4800).
FWIW, you may want to consider moving any archived shows/movies to Video
Library. At least in mythfrontend, the UI in Video Library is much
better for managing large collections of video than that in Watch
Recordings (which is primarily meant as a place for new recordings to
appear and disappear as you record and watch). See
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/519758#519758 and
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/519996#519996 for more.
> The Myth PVR Plugin on PI is not usable: select "recordings, wait 2 minutes for the list of recgroups. Select one, wait another 2 minutes for list of titles. Select one, wait> 1 minute for list of shows/subtitles.
>
> Actual playback of h.264 and mpeg2 (mpeg2 codec licensed) works quite well but metadata navigation is not acceptable.
>
> Pi was running Raspbmc with nightly build of XBMC 12 (Frodo)
Not sure whether doing so will have any benefit with Raspbmc--nor even
whether *bmc allows access to the videos in Video Library--but if
nothing else, it should make finding shows in your mythfrontends much
easier.
Mike
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