On 2018-01-26, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The main backend options seem to be MythTV, Plex, and TVHeadend.
>
> You seem to understand the pros/cons fairly well.
>
> I moved from MythTV to Plex about two years ago, but as a result of
> moving from DVR to discrete media files, which MythTV was a poor fit
> for. The DVR service is new for Plex and I've never tried it, though
> it would be free for me to use (I have a lifetime Plex pass). I don't
> have any tuners set up at all right now and no easy ability to watch
> LiveTV of any kind.
Live TV is not a priority at all and would be the first thing I would
give up in order to gain in other areas.
> One pain I always had with MythTV was any time where I wanted to run
> different distros on front-ends vs servers, because the protocol
> changes from time to time and upstream does not support anything
> other than all clients and servers running on the exact same build.
Yep. You can make it work, but it takes effort.
I was never able to find an option for an acceptably small and silent
Myth fontend. The last time I was looking into that, the Raspberry Pi
3B seemed like a decent option, but reports indicated it still took a
lot of futzing to get it work.
> The thing I like about Plex is that upstream basically tries to keep
> everything painless and "just working."
That's always good, and I'm more than happy to pay cash money for
that.
I'm guessing that Android client support is going to be better with
Plex than with the others.
> [...]
>
> Now, MythTV in general is going to be more flexible with DVR
> capabilities, since it does have a database you can poke around in,
> and more of an API/etc. And of course it is open source so you really
> can patch whatever you want into it.
After reading through the Plex DVR wiki pages, I was pleasantly
surprised. It had some features that MythTV has but TvHeadend and/or
SageTv lacks:
* Minutes-before and minutes-after settings for a recording to
adjust for local TV station management decisions to skew
start-stop times. SaveTV lacked this, and it was annoying. [The
optimal solution is repeated beatings for the people who decide to
do that.]
* How many and which recordings to keep for each series. [SageTv
does have this.]
> In a pure DVR world I might still be running MythTV. I'd certainly
> evaluate Plex though. I'm not sure how easy it is to evaluate Plex
> DVR without paying something though.
One notable feature that (I think) TvHeadend lacks is the ability to
only record series episodes that haven't been previously recorded and
watched. Both MythTv and SageTv can do that, but I'm not sure about
Plex.
I'm still not sure how storage space management works with Plex's DVR.
AFAICT, TvHeadend doesn't provide any space management at all.
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