86atc250r wrote: > I've been running GBPVR for 3 years now - excellent software & great > WAF. The commercial skip abilities alone are worth the price of > admission. > > We have two MVP's running MVPMC for distribution to other TVs in the > house (in fact, one of them is getting ready to be a client bridge off > a SB2 to see how well that works). > > The MVP does great with SD playback - it's got a hardware MPEG2 > decoder. The menus with GBPVR are a touch laggy, but it's mostly > related to the server PC because w/GBPVR the menus are actually an MPEG > stream from the server. For whoever was saying formats were a problem, > I believe GBPVR can transcode, but I've never done it, all my video is > either recorded or live TV from my hardware encoder. > > There's a pretty active community of GBPVR users with Popcorn Hour > devices - may be worth checking out the forum if you're needing more > than the MVP will do. > > I've heard that MythTV is a bear to get & keep working, even for > seasoned *nix guys - be aware of that if you decide to try that route. >
It was quite a hassle when I last did it. That's why I'm still running that original installation. I also bought a Popcorn Hour (actually a HDX-1000) recently and that's my favourite. It plays MythTV recordings, so I don't really need the Myth frontend anymore. I hardly watch live TV anyway. I keep thinking a HDX-1000 with a built in Squeeze-client (SoftSqueeze?) would be a killer device. Plays al your video's and music from one small box. Use the controller for the music. I would reduce my living room setup to three devices. TV, active speakers and HDX-1000. As simple as can be. Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
