MythTV backend, OpenELEC_XBMC frontend... record series?

[mvbighead]

I'll do that. Thanks for the tip. Hopefully I'll get more time to test this evening. That may determine if I end up buying a Chromebox. I am thinking with my 4 TVs, I may have 3 Pi's and 1 Chromebox.

I may wind up running MythTV frontend on the Chromebox to see if that works. Then run that on the main TV and Pi's everywhere else provided I see no major issues.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Sounds like a good plan that is similar to my setup- a stronger box on your primary TV and then weaker clients elsewhere. Great thing about that is you can run better skins on the faster box (Aeon is a crowd pleaser) and also run MySQL to sync all the different XBMC libraries.

Edit: A link would be nice:

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=MySQL

 

[mvbighead]

Ran it a bit more last night. Still having issues with both IR and/or CEC. My remote at the moment is my iphone.

Playback is mostly good, just not so great during high amounts of movement. I am not seeing much in terms of settings (that I haven't already enabled) that would help, so I am going to guess that it is possibly a limitation of the Pi. Going to see about hooking my laptop up tomorrow to the TV and see how much better of an experience that is.

While the CPU on my laptop will be considerably stronger than the Chromebox, I would imagine the GPU ought to produce similar results to what I might see with a Chromebox. Not a lot of time to go around for all of this stuff, but hopefully this weekend will show me what I want.

The bello interface did seem a touch faster, and I will say that by and large, the interface is not really the problem. My biggest issue is the remote and some occasional jaggies during high transition, but otherwise it is pretty darned good.

 

[poofyhairguy]

some occasional jaggies

Yeah, I imagine that there are some jaggies still given it is doing really basic deinterlacing. The fact you overall are impressed impresses me. If it was doing what I originally feared the image would look like garbage.

If your laptop has a Haswell GPU (Intel 4000+) then if you boot into a live Mythbuntu or Xbmcbuntu you can get a really good idea how well things work. I will just say from personal experience with the Chromeboxes that there is nothing short of 4k I fear throwing at them.

 

[mvbighead]

Cool. I hooked up the laptop and it didn't seem to have the jaggies, but I only played it for a few minutes.

The new 3 TB WD AV drive showed up so I am installing that now, then off to migrating the VMDK over to the new disk. That, or I may re-install MythTV with the 14.04 iso now that I seem to have the install figured out.