callmecheez
Established Member
Evening,
Unsure of which forum to post this in - so mods please move if appropriate.
I've been playing around with HTPC software recently, and wondered what peoples' opinions were, or what setup they're using.
After trial and error I have discovered the following;
As I said - I just wonder what others are using, and if I'm missing a trick with another piece of software!
Unsure of which forum to post this in - so mods please move if appropriate.
I've been playing around with HTPC software recently, and wondered what peoples' opinions were, or what setup they're using.
After trial and error I have discovered the following;
- MythTV (backend/frontend)- It seems beyond me to actually get this working. I can scan and setup channels, but can't get the front end to talk to the backend. Gave up. (tried Mythbuntu and installing MythTV onto a blank Ubuntu box)
- MediaPortal (backend/frontend)- Got this up and running (in Windows), but seems slow and unreliable (a lot of crashing, and slow channel changes). Didn't get much further.
- TVHeadEnd (backend) / XBMC (front end)- I've had the best results with this combination, a fair bit of faff to get the channels sorted, and can't get EPG working in XBMC but viewing and changing channels is nice and quick.
As I said - I just wonder what others are using, and if I'm missing a trick with another piece of software!