RE: [MUCH MythTV Users and Creators ..] Any success stories out there with the Raspberry Pi?

[Watson, Keith]

Warrenm

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keith

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> From: MUCH...@googlegroups.com [mailto:MUCH...@googlegroups.com] On
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> Subject: [MUCH MythTV Users and Creators ..] Any success stories out there
> with the Raspberry Pi?
>
> Anyone doing anything interesting yet with the Raspberry Pi? I'm
> building a music streamer device (for squeezebox server) out of one and
> that is going well. I'm using squeezeslave for that. I have been able
> to get lcdproc working with various LCD modules, and with an external USB
> sound card, the audio quality is top-notch.
>
> I've tried to get XBMC working on the Pi with my existing Myth backend
> (version .23), but that hasn't gone as successfully. I haven't updated
> my backend in a long time, so it may be a database schema issue. I hate to
> mess around with things that work so well, they have become utilitarian!
> If anyone has got it going with the Mythtv plugin, then I might consider
> upgrading my Myth backend.
>
>
>
> Warren
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[Watson, Keith]

Warren,

I had issues with XBMC and my MythTV backend. When using XBMC to watch certain videos whenever I would try to skip ahead or back the video playback would exit and go back to the selection screen. This made it impossible to manually skip over commercials.

I record over the air using a SiliconDust box. If I try to remove commercials from a recording or transcode it, and the recording has any dropouts, the video and audio get out of sync. The simplest solution is to keep the raw recording and manually skip the commercials like on a TiVo.

I haven't tried the latest version of XBMC, it might have fixed the problem.

I never figured out what the problem was with XBMC and why it didn't like certain recordings so I use the MythTV frontend on a laptop connected to the TV to watch videos. Eventually I want to use a Raspberry PI and XBMC as the front end instead of the laptop.

I'm in the same boat as you. If the new XBMC isn't compatible with my MythTV setup I really don't want to upgrade a functional MythTV system if I don't have to. I may just stick with using my laptop and the MythTV frontend.