<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 September 2012 22:51, Michael Watson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@thewatsonfamily.id.au" target="_blank">michael@thewatsonfamily.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 3/09/2012 7:38 AM, Joseph Fry wrote:<br>
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Some us do not transcode, nor record or watch blueray or HD<br>
and run<br>
quite happily on low end Atom stuff.<br>
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The term "low end" is very much relative. Your average 1.6-1.8GHz<br>
dual core Atom is nearly an order of magnitude higher performance<br>
than the 700MHz ARM11 in the RPi. That's not including the<br>
performance penalty hit when you start swapping on a machine with<br>
~200MB of memory, compared to an Atom which will more likely have<br>
1-2GB.<br>
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I was using that as a point of reference, showing performance<br>
complaints on an Atom when opening a large library in Watch<br>
Recordings, to point out potential problems on a yet significantly<br>
lower end system.<br>
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I acknowledge it may not run much but I hope it might run a<br>
low end<br>
front end, so please let's not write it off just yet.<br>
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I'm not writing it off. I'm just explaining the hurdles to go<br>
through in using it, and that the addition of hardware MPEG2<br>
support, rather than just H264, makes no real difference.<br>
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I wonder how lite mythtv could be as it stands today with just changes to settings, theme, and OS.<br>
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There are some guys on openelec forum working on running MythFrontend as an app addon for OpenElec/XBMC<br>
<a href="http://openelec.tv/forum/12-guides-tips-and-tricks/31170-mythtv-025-addon-for-openelec-r10534?limit=20&start=20" target="_blank">http://openelec.tv/forum/12-<u></u>guides-tips-and-tricks/31170-<u></u>mythtv-025-addon-for-openelec-<u></u>r10534?limit=20&start=20</a><br>
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There are now two distro's of xbmc available for the Pi, OpenElec and RaspBMC. Which you can then add Mitch Cappers version of MythBOX (which will run against a Myth 0.25 Backend) for access to MythTV.<br>
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I almost tempted to purchase a Pi, just to see how well xbmc runs on it, and test it as a suitable frontend device, if it fails, I guess it could always be used as a low power NAS for some USB HDD's<div class="HOEnZb">
<div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>I have a Pi, with the Raspbmc distribution installed on a 4gB class 4 SD card.Not installed the mpeg2 decoding library yet.</div><div><br></div><div>All my movies, TV series, and music is on a NAS providing SMB, NFS, and UPNP shares. I also have a Mythtv system, which pulls the movies, TV, and music from the same shared. Only Tv recordings are stored locally on Myth.</div>
<div><br></div><div> The Pi does like to do one thing at a time - If it is scanning the media shares, and pulling down metadata, the menus get very sluggish.</div><div><br></div><div>Playback is perfect for media which it can decode in hardware - most of my videos are mkv containers with the content encoded in H264 at 720P with a handful in 1080P - all stream and playback brilliantly, and I expect the mpeg2 content to do so when I purchase the library.</div>
<div><br></div><div>HDMI-CEC works out of the box with the one TV I have in the house which supports it (an LG).</div><div><br></div><div>The on-demand content addons available in the UK for XBMC (iplayer, itvplayer, 4od) also work very well, with almost no installation or fiddling necessary.</div>
<div><br></div><div>XBMC is a little bit fiddly to setup in a shared environment with shared metadata etc., but the blame for that cannot be laid at the Pi's door - The one issue which does relate is that all the XBMC versions need to match. Out of necessity at the moment, The version on Raspbmc is bleeding edge, so installing a pckage on a PC wont work - you need to grab the same build from git and compile yourself - This will settle down though as everything gets more stable and mature.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The big plus for me with all of this is that it is a small unit which can be velcroed to the back of the TV, and powered from the USB ports on the TV with nothing else needed.</div><div><br></div><div>
It has already replaced the Mythfrontend in my daughter's room as she virtually never watched any content recorded by Myth - it's all ripped movies and TV shows. The catchup services are also there if there is anything she's missed.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Recording, scheduling and multiuser/frontend access are still the jewels in the Mythtv crown.</div><div><br></div><div>Once I get the mpeg2 licence, I am going to try a build of the frontend on the Pi to see what it is like with something like the mythcenter-wide theme which is light compared with some of the others. I had 0.24 running on a Nokia N900 mobile phone.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Gaz</div></div>