[mythtv-users] Recommendations needed for new FE box

[Phil Bridges]

On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 12:39 AM Tom Harris <thom.j.harris at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 6:47 PM, David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 05:34:14PM -0500, Ashu Desai wrote:
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>> > > > >
>> > > > Thank you!
>> > > >
>> > > > My problem is I don't know the difference say between Raspberry Pi
>> 3 B+
>> > > > video output vs say NUC with Pentium J5005 - i see multiple NUC on
>> amazon
>> > > > with under $200
>> > > >
>> > > > So just trying to see which way to go.
>> > >
>> > > For what do you want to use it?  MythTV, timestretch, YouTube, Prime
>> > > Video, Playstation Vue, other streaming service, other HTPC function?
>> > > Some boxes can do some of these, but no single box can really do them
>> > > all well.  In other words, it all depends on what *you* want it to do.
>> > >
>> > > David
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>> > My needs are extremely simple - I use Myth for music, videos (not TV
>> > recordings - my own movie/homevideos collection), family photo.
>> >
>> > So basically my need is for a FE that will allow HD videos with HD
>> > (generally speaking - HD-DTS, TrueHD, etc etc) passthrough, I also have
>> > "some" H.265 movies that are currently unplayable owing to the ZOTAC ION
>> > processor that can't handle it.
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>> For those needs, just about anything that runs mythfrontend should
>> suffice.  For even lower end, you could even get by with Kodi.  Just
>> make sure whatever hardware supports those audio formats.  As has been
>> mentioned, some newer, lower-end NUCs can't do do audio pass through.
>>
>> David
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>> > I wanted to dab into the airplay but i only get the sound out - no
>> video.
>> > However, that is for another email chain since I don't want to hijack
>> this
>> > one by digressing.
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> One note on the Kodi option:   In general I find it works very well on my
> cheap little Pi3 box.  Playback of completed recordings is very good.
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> But, one area that it does quite poorly at is ’time shifting’ — starting
> playback on a video that is currently recording.   I do this a lot with
> ballgames.  I start watching an hour after the game begins and skip
> commercials and dead time until I reach current time.    MythFrontEnd is
> great for this.  Kodi is very bad.  It messes up the (changing) end time,
> and skip ahead/back doesn’t skip the correct amount of time.
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What's the downside of using the regular Mythfrontend on a Pi 3?
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