On 03/05/2012 01:53 PM, Jon Gettler wrote: > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Paulus, Markus G A (Mark) > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> And now I feel I would be giving something up on the front ends that >>> can handle the higher fidelity video and sound. >>> >>> -good luck >>> >>> >>> >> So Stuart, >> >> If you don't mind me asking, what is your frontend of choice these days? > The two front-ends I'm using at the moment are my Android phone and my > Roku player. Neither is ready for primetime, but they are both > functional if your recordings are in the right format. > > Is anyone else interested in either platform? The Android app source > is available on github, although I haven't gotten around to publishing > the Roku channel yet. > > Jon > > Ha! Ok, so I need to show my hand, do I. After all is said and done. The only dependable way (now remember, I really needed that high WAF score for this project!) was to put together a duel core / nvidia desktop computer for the main front end. Was it too big? Was it to noisy? Well, not really. It is sitting next to (almost behind) a big old 50 inch rear projection set. So it is practically out of site. I still have an mvpmc box sitting in that stack of equipment. But I have not been using it for some time now. My other front end is really the master back end running on a quad core / nvidia desk top. I do run a master and slave back end set up on these two computers. (I had to to spread out the 4 tuners.) However, this causes no end of problems. Some will argue "what problems"? Well, for one, I can't dependably burn DVDs because the recording needs to reside on the machine that is doing the burning. I can't stream all shows from the mythtweb interface for the same reasons. I suppose I could cross mount the media file partitions. But then there are problems if one of the boxes goes down. And I am still not clear on what tricks mythtv pulls when it "finds" more disk space which happens to actually be a NFS. My nightmares involve a back end recording and storing the recordings on an NFS while the front end on the same machine is watching another show while there is a commercial flagging job running on the other back end on another NFS. At which point I think my network would catch on fire.
I have been successful using the myth-upnp interface on my Touchpad / Android tablet. But the show has to be of low quality (an ATSC signal of an old NTSC-quality and black and white show) and has to reside (of course) on the mythtv master back-end machine. Fun to try, but not very practical. I have also had some success with certain color videos using the same myth-upnp interface on an large Insignia (spelling?) version of a Chumby. But I find the Chumby will reset if the bit rate gets too high. I doubt the standard small Chumby can do this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
