New user - got it to work on Pi4 without drama

[TheRealRoland]

Hey, i know on forums you hear about all the problems encountered during installation, etc.

Just wanted to drop a note that i got things working by simply installing the .deb package on the Pi4. No drama.

It probably helps that i have previous experience with MythTV, already have a SD schedule set up, knowing terminology, and overall approach. But yeah, this is smooth.

I'll be tinkering with this the coming days - couldnt get MythTV 031 to work on the Pi4 with a HDHomerun tuner - so am happily surprised this is so much easier.

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Great. Good to hear you got it installed with no drama

[TheRealRoland]

Some first-hour observations:
- recording two shows (both from an sd channel) at the same time - cpu usage not going over 20%
- recording two shows and playing a recorded video with keeping transcoding 'default' - stuttering, cpu 97% almost constantly
- reduced transcode to 576p, playing a recorded video, while recording two shows - little to no stuttering, cpu around 80%

Using the chromium browser that came with raspian on the pi4 - running/booting from an SSD, no longer the memory card.

Then, connecting remotely from a windows laptop to the pi4 nextpvr front end - getting similar performance; no skipping, probably because the transcode is set at a level that the pi4 can support

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- recording two shows and playing a recorded video with keeping transcoding 'default' - stuttering, cpu 97% almost constantly
- reduced transcode to 576p, playing a recorded video, while recording two shows - little to no stuttering, cpu around 80%

Realistically, the RPi4 is fine for a backend, but not really suitable for watching content in the web browser (since transcoding is required, and the hardware isn't really up to this task). It should work well with native client front ends though, like Kodi or the NextPVR AppleTV/iOS apps, which can play the live streams without requiring transcoding.

[TheRealRoland]

Also, just donated. I'm really impressed how all this stuff just worked! And that doesn't happen often...

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Cheers