MythTv Player - MythTv Player

Lowebb

2008-02-04, 10:32 #1

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Subject: MythTv Player

Hi guys, new user of MythTV player. I'd like to let you know I've installed the player (non live-tv version) and I have to say I'm very impressed. Simple and Effective; that is what required and that is what has been delivered. I think the player needs to be advertised much more effectively. I've been searching for a week for such a player and any forums I've looked at have said either Virtual emulation or WinMyth (which is non-functional as far as I can see) to connect to MythTV backends.

I've a question about the LiveTV version. What is the stability like; I'm no expert programmer and will wait until it becomes stable before I start messing around with it

Girkers 2008-04-03, 12:51 #2

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I have been using version 0.51 Pre10 for sometime now and whilst there is one or two minor minor problems it works fine.

gjunker 2008-11-30, 10:05 #3

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Installed the latest 0.50. I am running a protocol 40 server and it has no problem hooking up to it (at least for my needs, which is just watching LiveTV at my desk in the other room). The only tiny issue was I couldn't back up in the stream while watching LiveTV but I can live with that.

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Elegant simplicity, great that someone finally managed to do this properly. I had no idea that HDTV could look that good, because my Myth server is a Fedora 6 P4 3.0 with a GeForce 6800GT, and it can't quite decode the HDTV signal without constant hiccups. However, viewing the HD stream on my Core 2 Quad 8600GT machine, flawless.

To Lowebb: LiveTV has been very stable for me, no problems changing channels or recorders (I have a pcHDTV card, Hauppauge 250 and 500 in my server and going back and forth is no problem). The player shows the channel lineup just fine. The only hiccup I noticed when changing recorders (to/from the HD and 250 cards) was that you have to stop LIveTV and restart it on the other recorder. Minor issue, really insignificant for me.

ppkkss 2009-01-25, 03:15 #4

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Installed .42 on a Vista laptop and it works perfectly. Far easier than starting the laptop with the Knopppmyth disk and running the frontend off the disk. Thanks!