Adam,
> > 1) media mvp (hauppage) --- speaks myth check out > > the sourceforge site > > for more info .. quite easy to setup > I didn't realize this was Myth compatible. I > definitely will pick one up for the non-HD/non-web > surfing viewing stations. Thanks for the tip! > I'm running the latest mvp mythversion and its fine. It cant decode AC3, so no DVDs support. Also, you need to convert HDmpeg2 to DVDmpeg2 with 2 channel stereo (as I mentioned before). > I spent countless hours on avsforum researching the > LP2 vs the BLT, in the end I think they are fairly > similar. But regardless, either probably won't give me > the performance I was looking for. HD streaming > quality is superb, but the slowness from the > server-side UPnP stuff is not acceptable... and, no > "LiveTV" support. Please let me know when you figure > out how to make it into a Myth frontend, I'd like to > give it a shot. > I dont understand what you mean by "slowness from serverside" ? I've been running LP2 for over 1 week now and I dont see any "slowness" while accessing files/directories etc. Regarding live TV, it depends upon your use of the DVR (timeshift etc). I feel that I'm controlling my TV watching via scheduling my recordings around my time. In that way, any DVR (myth for ex.), is more preferrable to watching live TV (unless you are really really bored and nothing else to do ...). I think I'm very close to getting a real live TV on the LP2. I've managed to write an application (using the mediamvp's libcmyth library) which can control the backend, change it to live TV mode, and change channels. I'm in process of hacking the wizd server so that when it opens a special directory "LiveTV" (which is symlink to my /cache/cache), it opens the directory, check for ringbuf.nuv filename. If it finds the file, it serves the file to the LP2 :-) If the file is not present, it calls libcmyth functions to connect to the backend, open the recorder etc etc. This will create ringbuf.nuv file in my live TV directory (/cache/cache) if a recorder is available. Then I can serve the file to the LP2. There is an *exploit* in LP2 right now, that if you press the left arrow key (goto-0%), it does send something like "Range=0-" to the server. I can use that as in indication to change channel UP when I'm in LiveTV mode. To get the same functionality, low profile, quietness, user friendly, HD readiness, etc, etc for LP2, you need to spend more than twice the amount. Some have managed to get cromwell mobo PC for about $600+ as HD frontend. LP2 is 250+10(S&H)+20(tax if you are lucky enough to live in CA). I wanted something now for my frontend HDTV, without going through agony and pain. Price was also a factor. So I opted for LP2. Its serving my purpose (which may not be same as yours :-). I want myth as my backend but I dont want it to dictate the way I view my media. Thanks Mudit _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
