[Blackpool] Fwd: [RossLUG] XBMC Eden

[Jonathan Archer]

Cheers Les,

Not sure if your MythTV Gurus are interested but I left Myth behind a
few years ago in favour of XBMC as a front end. I found I was using Myth
mainly for a front end for viewing rather than as a backend for
recording and found it a little cumbersome (i.e. switching channels
taking an age etc). I'm sure its been improved.

For a while I still left Mythbackend in place for DVB connectivity and
recording, but swiftly moved to a product called TVHeadend
https://www.lonelycoder.com/tvheadend/ or
https://github.com/opdenkamp/tvheadend

Which is a really lightweight PVR backend has most of the features you
want of a PVR. One of the most useful features I find is that it will
record multiple items from a single multiplex using only 1 tuner. (not
sure if Myth does that these days). 

I'm currently using Lars Opdenkamps fork of xbmc (which is rarely behind
upstream) which contains the PVR features needed to connect into a
multiple backend PVRs (these features will be included in xbmc 12
apparently).
https://github.com/opdenkamp/xbmc
I compile from source, but there are deb packages available

Using the amazing front end and lightweight backend I find it a really
slick setup. 

Jon


On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 11:37 +0100, Les Pounder wrote:
> For our mythtv gurus
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Jonathan Archer" <jon at rosslug.org.uk>
> Date: Mar 27, 2012 11:32 AM
> Subject: [RossLUG] XBMC Eden
> To: <rosslug at rosslug.org.uk>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I know a few of you guys are running XBMC, just thought I'd let you know
> that I updated to the latest stable release of Eden last night. I've
> been running pre-Eden for some time now so not all of the features are
> new to me, but there are massive differences from Dharma so I recommend
> doing the update.
> 
> Things I've noticed:
> 
> Faster scraping - scraping of movie, TV and music info seems a lot
> quicker, I think they have made the threads parallel.
> Rollback of addons - if a new addon breaks or you don't like it there is
> a button to roll back to a previous version.
> Horizontal Confluence - the default skin Confluence as switched to be
> horizontal which looks nicer and is far more productive (i think so
> anyway)
> I'm sure there is loads more but as I say I haven't really noticed due
> to keeping up with the latest dev release.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
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