[ale] MythTV/similar hardware recommendations

[DJ-Pfulio]

On 03/30/2016 08:27 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> Do we need capture card with this PVR or we are recording digital stream?

The "tuners" are necessary according to the basic requirements page.
https://tvheadend.readthedocs.org/en/latest/basic_requirements/ I don't
think it works with IPTV or internet streams - if that was the question.
Kodi can play those directly by using addons.


> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 5:02 PM, DJ-Pfulio <djpfulio at jdpfu.com
> <mailto:djpfulio at jdpfu.com>> wrote:
> 
>     The back-ends can run on the same box.  TVHeadend was the most
>     stable at one
>     point.  I tried to get that working and failed - on two different
>     systems.  The
>     only way I had **any** success was using NextPVR (windows) as the
>     backend and it
>     would lock up if I tried to FFwd or pause or change channels or  get new
>     schedule data or ...  or ... or ... or .... looked at it funny.
> 
>     If Chuck knows how to make this stuff work, fantastic!  I'd love
>     some help too.
> 
>     On 03/30/2016 04:10 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
>     >
>     > I looked at that link and it says Kodi needs a PVR backend.  Then it has
>     > a link to the next page of the wiki which lays out  a list of PVR
>     > backends and none of them are Kodi, one is MythTV.  So I still have to
>     > run MythTV in addition to running Kodi.  If I'm missing something, I'm
>     > not seeing it on those pages.
> =