[mythtv-users] OT: I'm streaming Netflix on my Linux box

[jedi]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 09:01:30PM -0400, Matt Emmott wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:33 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > >
> > > XBMC, in my opinion, is a much better front end for audio & video than
> > Myth.
> > > The interface and usability are slicker and more usable than mythmusic
> > and
> > > mythvideo as far as I'm concerned. But yes, it does not add much more in
> > the
> >
> >     Well, how exactly?
> >
> >    We can corner some of the devs in a room and not let them leave
> > until they make some improvements... '-)
> >
> 
> First let me say that I'm in no way poo-pooing on any piece of Myth or its
> developers. The programmers have done a fantastic job with this product and
> I don't pretend to know the first thing about programming. Not to mention
> they do it for no money and the only thing I've ever put money towards other
> than hardware is a Schedules Direct subscription, andhave received a
> wonderful product in return.
> 
> That being said, the look, feel and general UI of Mythmusic & Mythdvd are
> just terrible. XBMC looks nice, is very snappy and is (for the most part)
> pretty intuitive. It's still buggy, sure, but for the most part will throw
> any video format thrown at it, be it an ISO of a DVD, Xvid / Flash / Mkv /
> Quicktime / etc. On the audio side it plays all the happy formats you'd
> expect, offers a library option to index all your songs, will read iTunes
> DAAP data and playlists, and has some pretty nice fullscreen visualizations.
> Oh, and it downloads the album art / DVD covers for all your media on the
> fly without need for a third-party scraper.

    Beyond the just-in-time metadata management, I am not sure you've
identified anything beyond good looks that XBMC that MythVideo and
MythMusic doesn't already do.

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