[gentoo-user] Re: Opinions on DVR/PVR backend?

2018-01-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-01-26, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > So you know the RPI is not open source as the RPI foundation doesn't > provide firmware sources. Yes, I'm aware of that. [...] > I would consider purchasing another device, of which legitimately > open source low power ARM devices are a

[gentoo-user] Re: Opinions on DVR/PVR backend?

2018-01-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-01-26, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 1:40 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> >> Pre-transocoding from MPEG-2 TS to MPEG-4 h264 would be nice. > > So, that is a downside with Plex. I don't think you get that level of > fine-grained

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Opinions on DVR/PVR backend?

2018-01-26 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 1:40 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > > Pre-transocoding from MPEG-2 TS to MPEG-4 h264 would be nice. > So, that is a downside with Plex. I don't think you get that level of fine-grained control. You can't just pick the codec and features. You pick

[gentoo-user] Re: Opinions on DVR/PVR backend?

2018-01-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-01-26, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> >> I'm guessing that Android client support is going to be better with >> Plex than with the others. >> > > I know nothing of TVheadend. MythTV on Android

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Opinions on DVR/PVR backend?

2018-01-26 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I'm guessing that Android client support is going to be better with > Plex than with the others. > I know nothing of TVheadend. MythTV on Android has always been kludgy at best, though I haven't touched it in

[gentoo-user] Re: Opinions on DVR/PVR backend?

2018-01-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-01-26, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Grant Edwards > wrote: > >> The main backend options seem to be MythTV, Plex, and TVHeadend. > > You seem to understand the pros/cons fairly well. > > I moved from MythTV to Plex