2011-01-17, 08:28 PM
i was sort of the other way around, i was using gbpvr for years but playback on windows of 1080p stuff kept stuttering in places and skipping frames, and i had a good machine (2.4 core duo 2 4gb ram good graphics card), so i tried install linux and xbmc, playback was perfect.
installed mythtv (had pvr 150/350 cards so no driver issues), that was easy enough to setup and configure, but the menus in myth are completely stupid and make very little to no sense, you have to go through about 3 menus to get to tv guide, you can hit play to start watching tv in there, recording has way too many options and its just not thought out at all. gbpvr has the best tv guide in any pvr. but the beauty of mythtv is the server, being able to setup the server in a closest and have xbmc frontends were pretty good (but a little buggy).
so after about a year of a mythtv backend and xbmc frontends, i switched to mac minis with boxee and eye tv. im not a big tv user (tv in nz sucks and is seasons behind some great shows) so i dont actually use tv. i use boxee and a vpn to watch tv and movies (netflix rules), and since i dont watch much tv i dont really miss gbpvr. i miss the fact that it always worked and i had no issues with it, but gbpvr is very much a pvr and the media centre aspect takes a backseat (its a one man project, and sub has done an excellent job, its hands down the best pvr out there). ill buy a tv when they come out with basic PVR functionality (some are starting to now) and just have a mac mini (or google tv built in?) for streaming and digital media.
installed mythtv (had pvr 150/350 cards so no driver issues), that was easy enough to setup and configure, but the menus in myth are completely stupid and make very little to no sense, you have to go through about 3 menus to get to tv guide, you can hit play to start watching tv in there, recording has way too many options and its just not thought out at all. gbpvr has the best tv guide in any pvr. but the beauty of mythtv is the server, being able to setup the server in a closest and have xbmc frontends were pretty good (but a little buggy).
so after about a year of a mythtv backend and xbmc frontends, i switched to mac minis with boxee and eye tv. im not a big tv user (tv in nz sucks and is seasons behind some great shows) so i dont actually use tv. i use boxee and a vpn to watch tv and movies (netflix rules), and since i dont watch much tv i dont really miss gbpvr. i miss the fact that it always worked and i had no issues with it, but gbpvr is very much a pvr and the media centre aspect takes a backseat (its a one man project, and sub has done an excellent job, its hands down the best pvr out there). ill buy a tv when they come out with basic PVR functionality (some are starting to now) and just have a mac mini (or google tv built in?) for streaming and digital media.