[mythtv-users] Recommendation for a Cheap Frontend.

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Feb 1 15:24:58 UTC 2013


On 02/01/2013 05:40 AM, Martin Bene wrote:
> 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).

FWIW, you may want to consider moving any archived shows/movies to Video 
Library.  At least in mythfrontend, the UI in Video Library is much 
better for managing large collections of video than that in Watch 
Recordings (which is primarily meant as a place for new recordings to 
appear and disappear as you record and watch).  See 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/519758#519758 and 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/519996#519996 for more.

> 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.
>
> 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)

Not sure whether doing so will have any benefit with Raspbmc--nor even 
whether *bmc allows access to the videos in Video Library--but if 
nothing else, it should make finding shows in your mythfrontends much 
easier.

Mike


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