[mythtv] Anyone use MythTV on an XBox?

Kevin Fox Kevin.Fox at pnl.gov
Mon Sep 21 23:05:53 UTC 2009


I had two xbox myth front ends. I haven't used either in about a year.
They were nice while they lasted, but too slow/old now.

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 15:02 -0700, Robert Johnston wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 15:59, Joe Ripley <vitaminjoe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Mark Spieth
> <mark at digivation.com.au> wrote:
> >>> Does anyone still use MythTV on an XBox?
> >>>
> >>> I was looking at QTimer usage in MythTV and one of the places that
> class
> >>> is used incorrectly is in the XBox class. But there are a number
> of
> >>> other problems with that small class. If no one is using &
> supporting
> >>> that code, we might as well remove it...
> >>
> >> havent used my xbox for myth in a long time. just too slow.
> >> I suspect this woul dbe true for most.
> >
> > Same here.  It was mostly a proof of concept project for me... I
> > haven't used it as a regular frontend, other than to see if it still
> > works. :)
> 
> Same here. I find XBMC on my XBox is working as a much better frontend
> experience than Myth under Linux ever managed. The only thing I'm
> missing is commercial skipping, but with instantaneous jumping (a
> minute-thirty skip, if you will) on the arrow keys for the XBox
> remote, that's not missed quite so much.
> --
> Robert "Anaerin" Johnston
> Sent from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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