[mythtv-users] Raspberry Pi frontend via Raspbmc - first try report

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Jon Heizer <jheizermythtv at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Tyler T <tylernt at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> > 4. Moving around the mythtv pvr plugin screens is painfully slow;
>>>
>>> I had the same experience, however XBMC has native myth:// protocol
>>> support so you can bypass the plugin slowness and just use the normal
>>> media browser interface to watch recordings. XBMC apparently doesn't
>>> support my old 0.23 BE but if you want to try it with your newer BE,
>>> I'd love to hear if it works.
>>>
>>
>> I have not tried that yet, although I have used it on x86 machines and it
>> works but i don't like the interface much. Wouldn't be nice enough to throw
>> out my mythfrontend.
>>
>> Of all of them I think mythbox has the nicest interface, I don't much
>> like the XBMC PVR interface either.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> > 7. When it doesn't crash it renders the recorded TV files well enough
>>> and
>>> > without significant breaking of sweat,
>>>
>>> I used analog audio and got some loud audio pops when
>>> starting/stopping/skipping playback. You using analog or digital?
>>>
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>> I am using HDMI, so digital. I have heard the analogue output from RPi is
>> pretty hairy in other software as well.
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>> One option might be an external USB sound card. Not all work though
>> apparently.
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> I decided to pull my RPi back out this weekend and give this a try again
> on a rarely used TV.  I was able to get everything working using the
> myth:// and the standard xbmc browser.  With the mpeg2 license I can play
> both my OTA and HDPVR recordings.  I do get some buffering lag.  It doesn't
> seem like the network can keep up.  I know there are USB NIC issues and I
> have an older board so maybe I am one.  Haven't researched it all yet.
>  Besides that HDMI audio worked, WM Remote worked.  Did you guys get yours
> to work w/o lag?  Did you use myth:// or NFS?
>

I  used the new myth pvr plugin which is part of the new pvr part of xbmc.


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> Jon
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