[mythtv-users] poor performance of Windows frontend

[Eric Sharkey]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Richard Morton
<richard.e.morton at gmail.com> wrote:
> As an alternative approach just connect to the upnp server and stream the
> apps into media player.

That sort of works, sometimes.  I does seem to work with the episode I
was testing with (the lowest bitrate SD content I have) but for most
episodes it doesn't seem to play at all.  It just says "buffering..."
then seems to start over and never gets enough of a buffer to start
playing.  It almost seems like there's a codec missing or something.
It's Windows Home Premium, so it should have all of the mpeg codecs.

The interface also isn't as nice as a real frontend.

> Alternatively try jriver media center which when I was a windows user I
> found to be excellent (although $40 after trial)

Thanks, but if I can't get it working, I'll just have him dual boot.

Eric