| Rich Freeman on 22 Mar 2016 13:34:33 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] MythTV Front-end Recommendations |
On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Louis K <louis.kratz@gmail.com> wrote: > > A few years back I had a similar issue: I was tired of running high energy > machines just when I wanted to watch TV. I ended running plexmediaserver on > the back end (same as mythtv backend box) and use a rasberry pi running > rasplex for the front end. I had to configure Mythtv to name the recordings > in a plex-friendly manner, but that wasn't difficult. > I ended up deploying OSMC on a Raspberry Pi 3. This seems to be the most common solution, but to be honest it seems remarkably buggy for a canned distro (random audio cutouts, hangs, etc). Plus, Kodi+mythtv doesn't seem quite perfect either (more buttons to get to important functions, commercial skip is hard to get to work right, etc). I'm really considering just wiping the thing and just installing mythfrontend on it, perhaps using Gentoo. That will be a bit more work though. Besides just getting Gentoo to boot I need to get hardware decoding working (that always seems to be tricky), and lirc configured (ugh). I'm hoping that just copying /etc/lirc or whatever the path is from my old box will work. Kodi seems like a better solution for cord cutters than people who primarily use MythTV and just occasionally play random video files. -- Rich ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug