RE: Building my own PVR / Media Clients

[Nigel Giddings <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kyle,

Thanks for the response.

Thanks for the heads up on the limitation of the raspberry Pi. This may
not be a huge issue for me as most of the content we watch is SD or
compressed DVD/BluRay rips...

I would like to invest in a decent front room TV (circa 50") if I can
get
the right sort of deal and I was hoping the Pi would give me the 'Smart'
part so I could go with a good quality more basic machine without all the
other functionality. Having a standard GUI across all TVs would, I think
improve WAF as well rather than different UIs on different TVs using
different media servers.... Maybe the Main TV will have to have better H/W
but still run XBMC for consistency.

I had never heard of Sickbeard, sabnzbd or even couchpotato. We are
compromised here with our broadband connection (via 3G) and only have 30GB
a month on the upload/download allowance so it's not an option I can make
much use of.

OK on using the Elgato, I was also looking at the HDHomerun from Silicon
Dust. The idea of a self-contained DVB-T tuner is appealing, not sure I
would go the DVB-S route we have good Freeview reception and I understand
they will be adding more HD now that the 'Digital Dividend' is coming
through. I would like to run more than 2 tuners eventually so would need
to make sure any backend PVR could handle multiple units, I wonder if you
know if it is possible for a backend PVR to prioritise like a TiVo and
across DVB-T and DVB-S if I had both available?

Lots more reading to do.

All the best

Nigel

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Kyle Gordon
Sent: 21 July 2013 00:05
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Building my own PVR / Media Clients

Short answer as I'm on the mobile...

Raspberry Pi won't cut it if you want 1080 video. Also, if you load up its
network throughput then performance will suffer as well.

Other than that, XBMC is ideal. I use it for pretty much the same
situation, but with one big raid array, sickbeard, sabnzbd, couchpotato,
and an Elgato doing dvb-s capture On 19 Jul 2013 16:16, "Nigel
Giddings"
<nigel@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
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> Having seen a few comments on here re Myth TV and PVRs I thought I
> would ask a general question.
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> I am a long time TiVo user and am surprised that no one has matched
> the functionality available 10 years ago.
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> I am a long term fan of XBMC right back to the early days of buying
> Mars Bars to get an Xbox cheap.
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> Currently using XBMC on my Laptop as I am working away from home and
> the latest build is great.
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> I was thinking of updating my home system to use XBMC on Raspberry
> Pi(s) as Clients for a number of TVs around the house. Possibly via
> WiFi if it will stand it.
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> What I wanted advice on was the backend. I would like one central
> PVR/Server and was going to try TVHeadend again on a Raspberry Pi but
> wanted to be able to record multiple streams of Terrestrial TV. Being
> able to record two never seems enough so maybe 4 or go the whole hog
> and have access to all muxes at all times?
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> I have a couple of NAS in the network which I would like to use for
> storing recorded content, I use an unRaid for my Media storage at the
> moment. The other NAS is a Terrastation.
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> I would want to be able to view Live TV from any TV , review EPG and
> set recordings and watch content from all TVs as well. Using Android
> Tablet / Handsets for remote functionality also seems a good idea.
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> Solution needs to have a high WAF of course.
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> Thanks in advance
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> Nigel
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