[mythtv-users] RANT: MythTV has a *horrible* end user experience.

[Robin Gilks]

> In my opinion, the biggest flaw is in playing back recorded TV versus
> playing back videos (AVIs, etc).  The problem here of course is that
> MythTV
> has two different movie players with two completely different sets of
> controls.  This just isn't going to work for the average user.  Having to
> tweak my remote settings manually to get both sets of controls
> semi-similar
> is painful.  And even then the controls/interfaces of mplayer vs. the
> internal player are different to the point of being obnoxious.  Any media
> played with MythTV needs to run under ONE player.

Interesting - I've been using the same (Internal) player for videos and TV
(and DVDs) for at least the last 12 months - have you moved on from
version 0.18 yet?

-- 
Robin Gilks