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RE: New MythTV add-on using libcmyth - speed32219 - 2012-06-12 06:47
Quote:Speed,
Did you use any special parameters when you built? i e during .configuration?
I check system status and CPU is running at about 50% memory ~25%. There are times things seem real sluggish. I have a server and 4 satelitte Zotac Zboxes running with at least 2 GB off of 16GB thumbdrives.
Mythfrontend is much more responsive/stable on the same satelittes.
Thanks,
Kevin
Kevin, the key for me was installing mythbuntu 12.04 and I did not check-mark repo updates. If I did check repo updates it would have all kinds of problems. I just did a plain install with no updates and the standard setup with the card IP (192.168.200.1) and then the server IP. If you want how I setup the card and channels using Comcast I can provide that configuration. Took me a while to iron everything out but myth-frontend has no problems, works great with no drop offs ppl are talking about. Today I put 4 GB of RAM in the backend and my cpu's are running a total of 16% on all processes, no swap and memory usage is 2.2% of total (4GB) with two HD channels running (htop). I have 5 boxes setup (One is strictly for testing) so I'm probably going to add another Ceton by years end. First going to build a new small low power stb size backend with 2 - 4GB of storage and if I want to save the TV show I'll trans-code to h264 and send it to the raid server.
With the XBMC plugin everything is wonderful including the same low CPU and memory usage. Although when show/movie ends it takes me straight to the guide occasionally. Also noticed slow channel changing, slower than when I use the Myth-frontends. Good news is I fixed the audio problems I was having (digital and analogue), so I am a happy camper. Just need to find why the shows are ending occasionally and all will be great! Except for the power management stuff which I still need to fix. (Suspend and WOL, darn 12.04)
RE: New MythTV add-on using libcmyth - kburkart - 2012-06-12 16:04
Maybe that is my problem, I think I checked the repo updates. I am also seeing the live tv end when a program is scheduled to end and the slow channel changing. I guess I will have to try and rebuild one without the repo updates
Thanks Kevin
RE: New MythTV add-on using libcmyth - guitarguy987 - 2012-06-12 16:32
(2012-06-12 06:47)speed32219 Wrote: With the XBMC plugin everything is wonderful including the same low CPU and memory usage. Although when show/movie ends it takes me straight to the guide occasionally. Also noticed slow channel changing, slower than when I use the Myth-frontends. Good news is I fixed the audio problems I was having (digital and analogue), so I am a happy camper. Just need to find why the shows are ending occasionally and all will be great! Except for the power management stuff which I still need to fix. (Suspend and WOL, darn 12.04)
What audio problems are you referring to? I have analog cable and a digital antenna on 2 seperate tuner cards on my backend. The analog audio is EXTREMELY loud compared to the digital in XBMC. Is this the same issue? If so, what did you end up doing to fix it?
Thanks.
RE: New MythTV add-on using libcmyth - kburkart - 2012-06-12 18:04
InoD,
Does the latest OpenElec have support for myth pvr and myth .25 or does that need to be built? If I need to build this my self can you give me some pointers?
Was going to try and do openELEC over PXE, I am afraid running mythbuntu/xbmc on a thumb drive may be causing the delays I am seeing, CPU and memory don't seem to be the issue.
Figure I'd try something different.
Thanks,
Kevin
RE: New MythTV add-on using libcmyth - InoD - 2012-06-12 20:48
(2012-06-12 18:04)kburkart Wrote: Does the latest OpenElec have support for myth pvr and myth .25 or does that need to be built? If I need to build this my self can you give me some pointers?
Was going to try and do openELEC over PXE, I am afraid running mythbuntu/xbmc on a thumb drive may be causing the delays I am seeing, CPU and memory don't seem to be the issue.
If you mean the standard 2.0 beta builds the answer is probably no. They are based on XBMC Eden (PVR), which does not have .25 support (yet).
The builds I shared do have .25 support as they are based on tsp's Eden-pvr branch which recently received .25 support. If you want to build it yourself, you can use the build scripts I posted a few pages back.
FYI, both my OpenELEC machines boot and run from thumb drive. Read/write performance might not be optimal, but for video/audio database I use external MySQL DB (to be able to share them between the clients) and thumbnails are available through Samba share.
RE: New MythTV add-on using libcmyth - kburkart - 2012-06-12 21:53
(2012-06-12 20:48)InoD Wrote:(2012-06-12 18:04)kburkart Wrote: Does the latest OpenElec have support for myth pvr and myth .25 or does that need to be built? If I need to build this my self can you give me some pointers?
Was going to try and do openELEC over PXE, I am afraid running mythbuntu/xbmc on a thumb drive may be causing the delays I am seeing, CPU and memory don't seem to be the issue.
If you mean the standard 2.0 beta builds the answer is probably no. They are based on XBMC Eden (PVR), which does not have .25 support (yet).
The builds I shared do have .25 support as they are based on tsp's Eden-pvr branch which recently received .25 support. If you want to build it yourself, you can use the build scripts I posted a few pages back.
FYI, both my OpenELEC machines boot and run from thumb drive. Read/write performance might not be optimal, but for video/audio database I use external MySQL DB (to be able to share them between the clients) and thumbnails are available through Samba share.
If by external mysql, you mean on a server that hosts both the db and NFS/Samba for fanart, then that is what I am currently doing.
I figured by going the OpenELEC route I can optimize it for the ION boxes. Is that what you run your thumbdrives on? Saw your build in the previous post. I will try that one if it is up to date.
Thanks,
Kevin
RE: New MythTV add-on using libcmyth - tdavis - 2012-06-13 07:08
(2012-06-11 01:51)tdavis Wrote: LiveTV unstable since 0.22; it appears to be really easy to trigger in 0.25
http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-June/335187.html
This appears to be the bug, and it is supposdely fixed in mythtv-0.25+fixes from April 10th..
http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10490
When I switched to a newer version of MiniMyth (0.81b5) for the frontend, and made sure the backend was new enough (Fedora 17 & rpmfusion is), the problem went away.
RE: New MythTV add-on using libcmyth - kburkart - 2012-06-15 15:09
Running OpenElec through PXE and it is much more responsive, thx InoD. The next question is how do you set up so each remote openelec client gets its own configuration, instead of sharing the same one? The audio setup on each client is slightly different, IE 2 r through HDMI, 1 analog, one optical. I get sound on all of them, but have to adjust audio every time it boots.
Thanks,
Kevin
PS, is anyone looking into the 13-15 second channel change time?
RE: New MythTV add-on using libcmyth - kburkart - 2012-06-15 15:56
Ok forget about the individual configuration, I realized I didn't add the overlay option to my PXE setup.
RE: New MythTV add-on using libcmyth - tsp42 - 2012-06-15 23:07
Sorry for the lack of updates.It has been a bit busy due to family_member_count++; but I've updated the master branch with cfetzer PR so it is now possible to set the watched state for recordings. I've also re-enabled the fast channel switching. The code compiles on windows but I'vent tested it with GCC yet. Next step is to backport the changes to eden-pvr.