I’m softening a little on MythTV. Last night I recorded a program and it looked quite good. I got a frontend working on the Mac, and was very impressed with image and sound quality — although the two machines are connected via gigabit Ethernet, so bandwidth should not have been a problem!
I still have lots of trouble with the backend “going away” when I tune a badly-configured or unresponsive channel, and HDTV just doesn’t work at all — if I try it on the same machine the backend is running on, I get a few seconds of broken vision and screeching audio before the frontend locks up. Trying HDTV on the remote frontend gives the same problems with video and audio, but at least the frontend remains responsive and I can change channel away.
Also, it’s frustration aplenty trying to populate the TV guide. I installed Rob-someone’s tv_grab_au, which at first just didn’t work, but then suddenly started working fine. Problem is, it won’t enter any data into the database. Okay, at first I had some problems in the XMLTV IDs I had entered for my channels, but I fixed all of that. Strangely, I get guide data for all of the HD stations (typical, since they’re the ones I can’t watch) but only 9 on SD.
The next big test will be to try the MythTV frontend on XBMC. Stay tuned for the next riveting episode…
Crossed Wires 