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On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:17 PM, David Tildesley <davotnz@yahoo.co.nz> wrote:
> using the Mythtv pvr plugin. Picture is OK but pauses a lot @ 1920 * 1080.
> CPU running at about 75% Load averages are high (5.32, 5.25. 4.32). Crashed.

Although there has been a bit of discussion here about xbmc's pvr
client, it isn't the best place to get xbmc or rpi support.

forums.xbmc.org is your best place for support, and consulting this:
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html would be a good
idea. xbmc forums will want you to provide versions of the software, a
debug log and so forth.

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I meant it as FYI only. I am not interested in further pursuing raspbmc mythtv plugin route - I was just curious and had an opportunity to try it is all (it wasn't the purpose of buying the raspberry pi) and thought others could be saved the bother of going down that route (don't is my recommendation).

It's a pain though trying to find a good low cost, adequate front-end hardware with the noise free, small size attributes especially in NZ.

David.





On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 8:00 AM, Nick Rout <nick.rout@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:17 PM, David Tildesley <davotnz@yahoo.co.nz> wrote:

> using the Mythtv pvr plugin. Picture is OK but pauses a lot @ 1920 * 1080.
> CPU running at about 75% Load averages are high (5.32, 5.25. 4.32). Crashed.

Although there has been a bit of discussion here about xbmc's pvr
client, it isn't the best place to get xbmc or rpi support.

forums.xbmc.org is your best place for support, and consulting this:
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html would be a good
idea. xbmc forums will want you to provide versions of the software, a
debug log and so forth.

On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 18:23:50 +1300, David Tildesley <davotnz@yahoo.co.nz>
wrote:

> I meant it as FYI only. I am not interested in further pursuing raspbmc
> mythtv plugin route - I was just curious and had an opportunity to try
> it is all (it wasn't the purpose of >buying the raspberry pi) and
> thought others could be saved the bother of going down that route (don't
> is my recommendation).
> It's a pain though trying to find a good low cost, adequate front-end
> hardware with the noise free, small size attributes especially in NZ.
>
> David.
>
>
>>
I know very little about this subject,but I did come across this sometime
ago:

Rasplex

Paul

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Paulgir <paulgir@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 18:23:50 +1300, David Tildesley <davotnz@yahoo.co.nz>
> wrote:
>
> I meant it as FYI only. I am not interested in further pursuing raspbmc
> mythtv plugin route - I was just curious and had an opportunity to try it is
> all (it wasn't the purpose of buying the raspberry pi) and thought others
> could be saved the bother of going down that route (don't is my
> recommendation).
>
> It's a pain though trying to find a good low cost, adequate front-end
> hardware with the noise free, small size attributes especially in NZ.
>
> David.
>
>
>
>
>
> I know very little about this subject,but I did come across this sometime
> ago:
>
> Rasplex

Now you really are getting OT LOL. Plex are a bunch of pricks IMHO.

The advantage of plex is that it has very good metadata scraping, and
that it will do automatic transcoding, so you can watch your videos on
low powered (graphically speaking) devices, and over low bandwidth
links (like when away from home).

The disadvantage is most of the clients and server are closed source.
The only opensource client I am aware of is the PC client that is a
fork of XBMC.

Also most of the best parts of their services are now pay per month.

If you want the features of plex in an opensource project try
mediabrowser3 http://www.mediabrowser3.com/ - they are developing a
linux version. It is .NET so expect mono to be required. Looks very
promising. There is an xbmc addon in development.

I know this is OT Mythtv in NZ, but I guess you guys and gals are into
your media, however delivered? Personally I use myth for recording and
watching TV only now, ripped media gets xbmc.

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On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:17 PM, David Tildesley <davotnz [at] yahoo> wrote:
> using the Mythtv pvr plugin. Picture is OK but pauses a lot @ 1920 * 1080.
> CPU running at about 75% Load averages are high (5.32, 5.25. 4.32). Crashed.

I have quite a different experience with my Raspberry Pis over the past 6 months. I have two running Openelec (another XBMC distro). After flashing Openelec, plugging it in and booting, I gave it the backend IP and I was MythTVing in under 5 minutes. A few points:

1. Most modern TV remotes work out-of-the-box over HDMI-CEC.
2. No tweaks required to get up and running. As long as the Pi knows about the backend, you'll be watching recordings in no time.
3. No crashing.
4. The Pi can only fast forward and rewind in chunks, set at 30secs. Slightly annoying but not a show-stopper.
5. There appears to be some network lag - probably CPU bound. The result is that sometimes you can't fastforward a recording immediately after starting playback as the network buffer is empty. This appears to be actively worked on as it's improved in recent releases.
6. XBMC recovers well from bitstream corruption. I have a cheap-and-nasty USB DVB-T dongle with poor sensitivity the throws in garbage frames every once in a while. (planning on replacing, btw. Any suggestions?)
7. Aside from MythTV recordings, XBMC's movie, TV show and music cataloguing and UI is light years ahead of MythTV.
8. With moderate overclocking of the Pi (just a settings change), I can play my Blu-ray full stream backups (made using MakeMKV) from the backend server with no trouble.
9. HTS TVHeadend can be "turned on" in openelec for a total backend and fronted solution on one Pi. I'm keen to test how well this really works as I'm a little sceptical about the Pi's ability to record multiple streams while I watch a Blu-ray sized movie. I'll get onto this once I have a tuner dongle free. HTS lacks some scheduling and management features so I don't think I'll switch just yet.
10. Android phones and tablets make great remotes using Yatze app over wifi. Perfect for my (older) bedroom TV that only has DVI in.
11. Tons of apps for XBMC - Youtube, etc.

All-in-all a pretty positive experience with Raspberry Pi frontends and, most importantly, WAF is maintained. I've been running MythTV for 7 years and toying with the XBMC MythTV plug-in for a few years. It's at a point now where its mature enough to ditch the MythTV frontend. Finally, a frontend under 5W of power and $60!

Sam.

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On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Sam Hadley-Jones <sam@hadley-jones.name> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:17 PM, David Tildesley <davotnz [at] yahoo> wrote:
>> using the Mythtv pvr plugin. Picture is OK but pauses a lot @ 1920 * 1080.
>> CPU running at about 75% Load averages are high (5.32, 5.25. 4.32). Crashed.
>
> I have quite a different experience with my Raspberry Pis over the past 6 months. I have two running Openelec (another XBMC distro). After flashing Openelec, plugging it in and booting, I gave it the backend IP and I was MythTVing in under 5 minutes. A few points:

Openelec does seem to be the leading xbmc distro right now.

>
> 1. Most modern TV remotes work out-of-the-box over HDMI-CEC.
> 2. No tweaks required to get up and running. As long as the Pi knows about the backend, you'll be watching recordings in no time.
> 3. No crashing.
> 4. The Pi can only fast forward and rewind in chunks, set at 30secs. Slightly annoying but not a show-stopper.
> 5. There appears to be some network lag - probably CPU bound. The result is that sometimes you can't fastforward a recording immediately after starting playback as the network buffer is empty. This appears to be actively worked on as it's improved in recent releases.
> 6. XBMC recovers well from bitstream corruption. I have a cheap-and-nasty USB DVB-T dongle with poor sensitivity the throws in garbage frames every once in a while. (planning on replacing, btw. Any suggestions?)

HD Homerun

> 7. Aside from MythTV recordings, XBMC's movie, TV show and music cataloguing and UI is light years ahead of MythTV.


+1


> 8. With moderate overclocking of the Pi (just a settings change), I can play my Blu-ray full stream backups (made using MakeMKV) from the backend server with no trouble.
> 9. HTS TVHeadend can be "turned on" in openelec for a total backend and fronted solution on one Pi. I'm keen to test how well this really works as I'm a little sceptical about the Pi's ability to record multiple streams while I watch a Blu-ray sized movie. I'll get onto this once I have a tuner dongle free. HTS lacks some scheduling and management features so I don't think I'll switch just yet.
> 10. Android phones and tablets make great remotes using Yatze app over wifi. Perfect for my (older) bedroom TV that only has DVI in.
> 11. Tons of apps for XBMC - Youtube, etc.
>
> All-in-all a pretty positive experience with Raspberry Pi frontends and, most importantly, WAF is maintained. I've been running MythTV for 7 years and toying with the XBMC MythTV plug-in for a few years. It's at a point now where its mature enough to ditch the MythTV frontend. Finally, a frontend under 5W of power and $60!

Good contribution thanks, someone who is using one of these in NZ
conditions. Also if you are doing satellite as opposed to terrestrial
you will need to buy the MPEG2 codec. It's ghastly expensive... all of
GBP2.40 - and when I bought it they rounded down to the nearest GBP!

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The plugin seems pretty good for me (only have dvb-s though) I did make the
mistake of upgrading to 0.27 which isn't support be the latest stable
release

The biggest issue I have is the length of a recording in progress dosn't
get updated, hopefully being fixed in the next release

Also the EPG is terrible, mythfrontend/mythweb is much better


On 27 November 2013 22:23, Nick Rout <nick.rout@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Sam Hadley-Jones <sam@hadley-jones.name>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:17 PM, David Tildesley <davotnz [at] yahoo>
> wrote:
> >> using the Mythtv pvr plugin. Picture is OK but pauses a lot @ 1920 *
> 1080.
> >> CPU running at about 75% Load averages are high (5.32, 5.25. 4.32).
> Crashed.
> >
> > I have quite a different experience with my Raspberry Pis over the past
> 6 months. I have two running Openelec (another XBMC distro). After flashing
> Openelec, plugging it in and booting, I gave it the backend IP and I was
> MythTVing in under 5 minutes. A few points:
>
> Openelec does seem to be the leading xbmc distro right now.
>
> >
> > 1. Most modern TV remotes work out-of-the-box over HDMI-CEC.
> > 2. No tweaks required to get up and running. As long as the Pi knows
> about the backend, you'll be watching recordings in no time.
> > 3. No crashing.
> > 4. The Pi can only fast forward and rewind in chunks, set at 30secs.
> Slightly annoying but not a show-stopper.
> > 5. There appears to be some network lag - probably CPU bound. The result
> is that sometimes you can't fastforward a recording immediately after
> starting playback as the network buffer is empty. This appears to be
> actively worked on as it's improved in recent releases.
> > 6. XBMC recovers well from bitstream corruption. I have a
> cheap-and-nasty USB DVB-T dongle with poor sensitivity the throws in
> garbage frames every once in a while. (planning on replacing, btw. Any
> suggestions?)
>
> HD Homerun
>
> > 7. Aside from MythTV recordings, XBMC's movie, TV show and music
> cataloguing and UI is light years ahead of MythTV.
>
>
> +1
>
>
> > 8. With moderate overclocking of the Pi (just a settings change), I can
> play my Blu-ray full stream backups (made using MakeMKV) from the backend
> server with no trouble.
> > 9. HTS TVHeadend can be "turned on" in openelec for a total backend and
> fronted solution on one Pi. I'm keen to test how well this really works as
> I'm a little sceptical about the Pi's ability to record multiple streams
> while I watch a Blu-ray sized movie. I'll get onto this once I have a tuner
> dongle free. HTS lacks some scheduling and management features so I don't
> think I'll switch just yet.
> > 10. Android phones and tablets make great remotes using Yatze app over
> wifi. Perfect for my (older) bedroom TV that only has DVI in.
> > 11. Tons of apps for XBMC - Youtube, etc.
> >
> > All-in-all a pretty positive experience with Raspberry Pi frontends and,
> most importantly, WAF is maintained. I've been running MythTV for 7 years
> and toying with the XBMC MythTV plug-in for a few years. It's at a point
> now where its mature enough to ditch the MythTV frontend. Finally, a
> frontend under 5W of power and $60!
>
> Good contribution thanks, someone who is using one of these in NZ
> conditions. Also if you are doing satellite as opposed to terrestrial
> you will need to buy the MPEG2 codec. It's ghastly expensive... all of
> GBP2.40 - and when I bought it they rounded down to the nearest GBP!
>
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OK - good to know. I'm 0.26, terrestial and the test was full HD. I have to say it wasn't too far off coping - maybe overclocking the raspberry pi may make the difference.

 





On Thursday, 28 November 2013 9:29 AM, Jason Taylor <killerkiwi2005@gmail.com> wrote:

The plugin seems pretty good for me (only have dvb-s though) I did make the mistake of upgrading to 0.27 which isn't support be the latest stable release

The biggest issue I have is the length of a recording in progress dosn't get updated, hopefully being fixed in the next release

Also the EPG is terrible, mythfrontend/mythweb is much better




On 27 November 2013 22:23, Nick Rout <nick.rout@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Sam Hadley-Jones <sam@hadley-jones.name> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:17 PM, David Tildesley <davotnz [at] yahoo> wrote:
>>> using the Mythtv pvr plugin. Picture is OK but pauses a lot @ 1920 * 1080.
>>> CPU running at about 75% Load averages are high (5.32, 5.25. 4.32). Crashed.
>>
>> I have quite a different experience with my Raspberry Pis over the past 6 months. I have two running Openelec (another XBMC distro). After flashing Openelec, plugging it in and booting, I gave it the backend IP and I was MythTVing in under 5 minutes. A few points:
>
>Openelec does seem to be the leading xbmc distro right now.
>
>
>>
>> 1. Most modern TV remotes work out-of-the-box over HDMI-CEC.
>> 2. No tweaks required to get up and running. As long as the Pi knows about the backend, you'll be watching recordings in no time.
>> 3. No crashing.
>> 4. The Pi can only fast forward and rewind in chunks, set at 30secs. Slightly annoying but not a show-stopper.
>> 5. There appears to be some network lag - probably CPU bound. The result is that sometimes you can't fastforward a recording immediately after starting playback as the network buffer is empty. This appears to be actively worked on as it's improved in recent releases.
>> 6. XBMC recovers well from bitstream corruption. I have a cheap-and-nasty USB DVB-T dongle with poor sensitivity the throws in garbage frames every once in a while. (planning on replacing, btw. Any suggestions?)
>
>HD Homerun
>
>
>> 7. Aside from MythTV recordings, XBMC's movie, TV show and music cataloguing and UI is light years ahead of MythTV.
>
>
>+1
>
>
>
>> 8. With moderate overclocking of the Pi (just a settings change), I can play my Blu-ray full stream backups (made using MakeMKV) from the backend server with no trouble.
>> 9. HTS TVHeadend can be "turned on" in openelec for a total backend and fronted solution on one Pi. I'm keen to test how well this really works as I'm a little sceptical about the Pi's ability to record multiple streams while I watch a Blu-ray sized movie. I'll get onto this once I have a tuner dongle free. HTS lacks some scheduling and management features so I don't think I'll switch just yet.
>> 10. Android phones and tablets make great remotes using Yatze app over wifi. Perfect for my (older) bedroom TV that only has DVI in.
>> 11. Tons of apps for XBMC - Youtube, etc.
>>
>> All-in-all a pretty positive experience with Raspberry Pi frontends and, most importantly, WAF is maintained. I've been running MythTV for 7 years and toying with the XBMC MythTV plug-in for a few years. It's at a point now where its mature enough to ditch the MythTV frontend. Finally, a frontend under 5W of power and $60!
>
>Good contribution thanks, someone who is using one of these in NZ
>conditions. Also if you are doing satellite as opposed to terrestrial
>you will need to buy the MPEG2 codec. It's ghastly expensive... all of
>GBP2.40 - and when I bought it they rounded down to the nearest GBP!
>
>
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On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 3:57 PM, David Tildesley <davotnz@yahoo.co.nz> wrote:
> OK - good to know. I'm 0.26, terrestial and the test was full HD. I have to
> say it wasn't too far off coping - maybe overclocking the raspberry pi may
> make the difference.
>
>

There have been serious code improvements in the raspberry pi code
within xbmc in recentish times. People report good results from:

1. running off a good usb3 stick (even though the port is usb2,
apparently usb3 sticks go faster.)

2. Overclocking

3. Using latest version of xbmc - in particularly openelec I believe.

>
>
>
>
> On Thursday, 28 November 2013 9:29 AM, Jason Taylor
> <killerkiwi2005@gmail.com> wrote:
> The plugin seems pretty good for me (only have dvb-s though) I did make the
> mistake of upgrading to 0.27 which isn't support be the latest stable
> release
>
> The biggest issue I have is the length of a recording in progress dosn't get
> updated, hopefully being fixed in the next release
>
> Also the EPG is terrible, mythfrontend/mythweb is much better
>
>
> On 27 November 2013 22:23, Nick Rout <nick.rout@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Sam Hadley-Jones <sam@hadley-jones.name>
> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:17 PM, David Tildesley <davotnz [at] yahoo>
>> wrote:
>>> using the Mythtv pvr plugin. Picture is OK but pauses a lot @ 1920 *
>>> 1080.
>>> CPU running at about 75% Load averages are high (5.32, 5.25. 4.32).
>>> Crashed.
>>
>> I have quite a different experience with my Raspberry Pis over the past 6
>> months. I have two running Openelec (another XBMC distro). After flashing
>> Openelec, plugging it in and booting, I gave it the backend IP and I was
>> MythTVing in under 5 minutes. A few points:
>
> Openelec does seem to be the leading xbmc distro right now.
>
>>
>> 1. Most modern TV remotes work out-of-the-box over HDMI-CEC.
>> 2. No tweaks required to get up and running. As long as the Pi knows about
>> the backend, you'll be watching recordings in no time.
>> 3. No crashing.
>> 4. The Pi can only fast forward and rewind in chunks, set at 30secs.
>> Slightly annoying but not a show-stopper.
>> 5. There appears to be some network lag - probably CPU bound. The result
>> is that sometimes you can't fastforward a recording immediately after
>> starting playback as the network buffer is empty. This appears to be
>> actively worked on as it's improved in recent releases.
>> 6. XBMC recovers well from bitstream corruption. I have a cheap-and-nasty
>> USB DVB-T dongle with poor sensitivity the throws in garbage frames every
>> once in a while. (planning on replacing, btw. Any suggestions?)
>
> HD Homerun
>
>> 7. Aside from MythTV recordings, XBMC's movie, TV show and music
>> cataloguing and UI is light years ahead of MythTV.
>
>
> +1
>
>
>> 8. With moderate overclocking of the Pi (just a settings change), I can
>> play my Blu-ray full stream backups (made using MakeMKV) from the backend
>> server with no trouble.
>> 9. HTS TVHeadend can be "turned on" in openelec for a total backend and
>> fronted solution on one Pi. I'm keen to test how well this really works as
>> I'm a little sceptical about the Pi's ability to record multiple streams
>> while I watch a Blu-ray sized movie. I'll get onto this once I have a tuner
>> dongle free. HTS lacks some scheduling and management features so I don't
>> think I'll switch just yet.
>> 10. Android phones and tablets make great remotes using Yatze app over
>> wifi. Perfect for my (older) bedroom TV that only has DVI in.
>> 11. Tons of apps for XBMC - Youtube, etc.
>>
>> All-in-all a pretty positive experience with Raspberry Pi frontends and,
>> most importantly, WAF is maintained. I've been running MythTV for 7 years
>> and toying with the XBMC MythTV plug-in for a few years. It's at a point now
>> where its mature enough to ditch the MythTV frontend. Finally, a frontend
>> under 5W of power and $60!
>
> Good contribution thanks, someone who is using one of these in NZ
> conditions. Also if you are doing satellite as opposed to terrestrial
> you will need to buy the MPEG2 codec. It's ghastly expensive... all of
> GBP2.40 - and when I bought it they rounded down to the nearest GBP!
>
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On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Jason Taylor <killerkiwi2005@gmail.com> wrote:
> The plugin seems pretty good for me (only have dvb-s though) I did make the
> mistake of upgrading to 0.27 which isn't support be the latest stable
> release

I have xbmc frodo working with myth 0.27 (on linux/pc not rpi)

>
> The biggest issue I have is the length of a recording in progress dosn't get
> updated, hopefully being fixed in the next release
>
> Also the EPG is terrible, mythfrontend/mythweb is much better
>
>
> On 27 November 2013 22:23, Nick Rout <nick.rout@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Sam Hadley-Jones <sam@hadley-jones.name>
>> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:17 PM, David Tildesley <davotnz [at] yahoo>
>> > wrote:
>> >> using the Mythtv pvr plugin. Picture is OK but pauses a lot @ 1920 *
>> >> 1080.
>> >> CPU running at about 75% Load averages are high (5.32, 5.25. 4.32).
>> >> Crashed.
>> >
>> > I have quite a different experience with my Raspberry Pis over the past
>> > 6 months. I have two running Openelec (another XBMC distro). After flashing
>> > Openelec, plugging it in and booting, I gave it the backend IP and I was
>> > MythTVing in under 5 minutes. A few points:
>>
>> Openelec does seem to be the leading xbmc distro right now.
>>
>> >
>> > 1. Most modern TV remotes work out-of-the-box over HDMI-CEC.
>> > 2. No tweaks required to get up and running. As long as the Pi knows
>> > about the backend, you'll be watching recordings in no time.
>> > 3. No crashing.
>> > 4. The Pi can only fast forward and rewind in chunks, set at 30secs.
>> > Slightly annoying but not a show-stopper.
>> > 5. There appears to be some network lag - probably CPU bound. The result
>> > is that sometimes you can't fastforward a recording immediately after
>> > starting playback as the network buffer is empty. This appears to be
>> > actively worked on as it's improved in recent releases.
>> > 6. XBMC recovers well from bitstream corruption. I have a
>> > cheap-and-nasty USB DVB-T dongle with poor sensitivity the throws in garbage
>> > frames every once in a while. (planning on replacing, btw. Any suggestions?)
>>
>> HD Homerun
>>
>> > 7. Aside from MythTV recordings, XBMC's movie, TV show and music
>> > cataloguing and UI is light years ahead of MythTV.
>>
>>
>> +1
>>
>>
>> > 8. With moderate overclocking of the Pi (just a settings change), I can
>> > play my Blu-ray full stream backups (made using MakeMKV) from the backend
>> > server with no trouble.
>> > 9. HTS TVHeadend can be "turned on" in openelec for a total backend and
>> > fronted solution on one Pi. I'm keen to test how well this really works as
>> > I'm a little sceptical about the Pi's ability to record multiple streams
>> > while I watch a Blu-ray sized movie. I'll get onto this once I have a tuner
>> > dongle free. HTS lacks some scheduling and management features so I don't
>> > think I'll switch just yet.
>> > 10. Android phones and tablets make great remotes using Yatze app over
>> > wifi. Perfect for my (older) bedroom TV that only has DVI in.
>> > 11. Tons of apps for XBMC - Youtube, etc.
>> >
>> > All-in-all a pretty positive experience with Raspberry Pi frontends and,
>> > most importantly, WAF is maintained. I've been running MythTV for 7 years
>> > and toying with the XBMC MythTV plug-in for a few years. It's at a point now
>> > where its mature enough to ditch the MythTV frontend. Finally, a frontend
>> > under 5W of power and $60!
>>
>> Good contribution thanks, someone who is using one of these in NZ
>> conditions. Also if you are doing satellite as opposed to terrestrial
>> you will need to buy the MPEG2 codec. It's ghastly expensive... all of
>> GBP2.40 - and when I bought it they rounded down to the nearest GBP!
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You are right Sam. Just tried Openelec and so far so good.


On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 9:48 PM, Sam Hadley-Jones <sam@hadley-jones.name> wrote:
>I have quite a different experience with my Raspberry Pis over the past 6 months. I have two running Openelec (another XBMC distro). After flashing Openelec, >plugging it in and booting, I gave it the backend IP and I was MythTVing in under 5 minutes. A few points:



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