[mythtv-users] Seeking frontend advice

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Sun Jun 29 12:31:56 UTC 2014


Hoi Michael,

Sunday, June 29, 2014, 10:56:59 AM, you wrote:

> On 29/06/2014 4:11 PM, mailing at biased.org wrote:
>>> On 28/06/2014 11:21 PM, Michael Watson wrote:
>>
>>> Compaq Desktop systems are generally fairly
>>> quiet unless running heavily loaded,
>>
>> So would something like this Compaq would be a better choice over the 
>> Dell?
>>
>> http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/231269329043
> Yep.  They are a good reliable machine, and relatively quiet.   And 
> enough grunt (specially with nVidia card added.

>>
>>> On 28/06/2014 15:24 PM, jacek burghardt wrote:
>>>
>>> Well just get raspberry pi and raspbmc and you will be set. you can 
>>> convert
>>> on fly 1080 to pal 480 and watch on backed.
>>
>> Interesting, I'm really intrigued about this idea.  I'm worried about 
>> the lack of S-Video output, not clear that I can use a Composite -> 
>> S-Video adapter, although I could use a Composite -> SCART adapter.
>>
>> There's quite a few comments online of the Pi not being beefy enough 
>> to run MythTV.  How well does raspmc work?  Is there any lag in the 
>> use?  Any jerky video?  Is  it possible to use the iPad to control this?
> I think there are many iPad apps to control XBMC.
> I personally prefer XBMC to Myth as a frontend, much more eye candy, 
> better Music Player, many additional add-ons.
> The Myth Addon for XBMC now works well (although there is a short delay
> when first started whilst it sync's the recording lists).  I have not 
> tried it on my Pi yet, (Mine runs as a Media server in the family minibus)

>>
>> Many thanks to everyone again!
>>
>> Cheers - Piers
>> _______________________________________________

If the TV has scart use vga to scart it's color quality is very much
higher. I have a 10 year old crt tv and have soldered the circuit
including serial ir. If you want I can give you the circuit.
One thing though is that with scart your card and driver must be able
to produce an interleaved vga signal. Intel can't, most modern nvidia
can but not the nouveau driver. ati I don't know.


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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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