[mythtv-users] Recommendation for a Cheap Frontend.

[Monkey Pet]

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:40 AM, Martin Bene <Martin.Bene at icomedias.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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).




> 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.
>


I have the same experience the same thing as you.  I have over 6 years of
recordings. The raspberry pi is slow to initialize the plugin, slow to
navigate the recordings menu. Sometimes it even runs out of memory.  Not
usable at all.


>
> 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)
>
> No Disclaimer.icomedias
>
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