05-08-2016, 08:58 AM
I was previously running TvHeadend on a Raspberry Pi 2 and I bought the Pine64 strictly for headless server duty to replace the Raspberry Pi 2. The Raspberry Pi 2 was able to handle about 30 channels perfectly of 60 with the rest being very mixed success; The on the rest the was inconsistant, the audio was not syncing with the video, laggy, particularly on Standard Definition channels which was weird. I bought the Pine64 for the gigabit networking to it up as a DVR.
After switching to the Pine64, it handles all 60 channels perfectly, including the standard definiton ones as well as the ability to run DVR as far as I could tell from the last few days, hasn't skipped a beat. As far as the audio/video syncing fix I wonder if it was from compiling the TvHeadend source code to aarch64 which has better NEON optimisations at the compiler level.
Im glad you guys posted how to set up Plex as well, got that installed.
I have to say I am quite happy with the device.
After switching to the Pine64, it handles all 60 channels perfectly, including the standard definiton ones as well as the ability to run DVR as far as I could tell from the last few days, hasn't skipped a beat. As far as the audio/video syncing fix I wonder if it was from compiling the TvHeadend source code to aarch64 which has better NEON optimisations at the compiler level.
Im glad you guys posted how to set up Plex as well, got that installed.
I have to say I am quite happy with the device.