[mythtv-users] MythTV Is Now Forked As Torc

[David Liana]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:17 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 01:40:32PM -0800, jk90090 wrote:
> > On 2/16/12 1:32 PM, Tom Lichti wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:25 PM, jedi<jedi at mishnet.org>  wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes, and the forum posts are interesting as well. Lots of MythTV
> > > bashing, but nothing really constructive. This is a gem:
> > >
> > > "I've been running MythTV for 5+ years now, and frankly, it hasn't
> > > changed much. "
> > >
> > > Seriously? I've been running it for much longer than that (almost 8
> > > years) and if you can't see that it's changed, you are missing
> > > something. Glasses perhaps.
> > >
> > > For something truly 'old fashioned', try your local cable co's PVR
> offering...
> > >
> > The competition isn't the local cable co PVR, it's Tivo, Windows Media
> > Center, and other good software based PVRs.  I agree that MythTV hasn't
>
>     ...which continue to lag behind MythTV in some areas despite it's
> apparent stagnation. If someone wants to tackle something comparable to
> "Internet TV" in MCE, then I'm all for that. Although something like that
> doesn't really require a fork of MythTV. Something like that could even be
> handled by a separate app that's just launched from the usual XML menus.
>

I agree.  But that's just me, of course.

I don't think I've seen any of the dev's officially speak to why there was
a fork in the first place.  Anyone care to comment?
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