2014-07-03, 17:44
I have been a user of WMC for several years (using Hauppauge WinTV PVR card and HD Home Run), but would like to switch to media center that has more features like the ability to share the tuners and recordings with front ends on other TVs.
One of my big problems with WMC is that it is on Windows and for some reason it keeps getting laggier and slower, particularly. Seems you basically have to reinstall Windows about every 9 months to prevent the wife from throwing the remote at the TV. I am facing that situation again, where you might hit fast forward and then it will ignore the remote for 20 secs and you have now fast forwarded half way through the show.
I have tried XBMC, Media Portal, etc. in the past and was looking at them again, but the thing that seems to kill it for me every time is the ridiculously long channel change times (5-10 seconds). That will not be acceptable to the wife.
I have been googling on it, but see all sorts of contradictory and some out of date information and am not sure really which direction to proceed.
So, bottom line, is there a PVR solution (XBMC, MythTV, or other) that does channel changes anywhere near as fast as WMC (< 2 secs)? I am not married to Windows on that box and would switch to Linux if that gave acceptable performance.
One of my big problems with WMC is that it is on Windows and for some reason it keeps getting laggier and slower, particularly. Seems you basically have to reinstall Windows about every 9 months to prevent the wife from throwing the remote at the TV. I am facing that situation again, where you might hit fast forward and then it will ignore the remote for 20 secs and you have now fast forwarded half way through the show.
I have tried XBMC, Media Portal, etc. in the past and was looking at them again, but the thing that seems to kill it for me every time is the ridiculously long channel change times (5-10 seconds). That will not be acceptable to the wife.
I have been googling on it, but see all sorts of contradictory and some out of date information and am not sure really which direction to proceed.
So, bottom line, is there a PVR solution (XBMC, MythTV, or other) that does channel changes anywhere near as fast as WMC (< 2 secs)? I am not married to Windows on that box and would switch to Linux if that gave acceptable performance.