[mythtv-users] Feature Confusion
Isaac Richards
ijr at po.cwru.edu
Wed Jul 16 22:28:06 EDT 2003
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 07:49 pm, Jarrod Gray wrote:
> While reading the story on Slashdot today about the Telly Linux PVR, I
> came across this comment:
> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=71232&cid=6449199
> "MythTV looks like a good start, but the effort required to get it
> working is significant, and it doesn't do anything BUT timeshift and
> record. It can't playback your DVD, VCDs, SVCDs, or Divx CDs, it
> can't save your recorded shows to CD/DVD, it can't playback music or
> display images, etc... "
>
> I think this comment reflects the difficulty in finding a complete
> feature list.
Well, I'd more tend to think that that comment reflects the general level of
(il)literacy of most slashdot posters. =)
> The "Features and Screenshots" web page needs to be
> updated to more clearly communicate all of the features of MythTV. It
> might be best to separate the screenshots from the features.
All of the screenshots are there to illustrate a feature, though. I don't
think it'd really make all that much sense to separate em totally.
> Important features like the ability to skip commercials,
That's on there.
> auto-deletion of shows,
Not a feature yet, as it's just in CVS. I generally don't put stuff on the
features page until it's in a release.
> and translation into other languages aren't even mentioned.
That's not, true.
> If all of the features and abilities were listed, a lot of people might be
> surprised by the progess of the project.
>
> Isaac, would you like a mock-up of changes or how should users
> contribute to the website content?
mock-ups are good, yes.
Isaac
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