[mythtv-users] Recommendation for a Cheap Frontend.

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/01/2013 11:13 AM, jedi wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 10:24:58AM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 02/01/2013 05:40 AM, Martin Bene wrote:
>>> How many recordings do you have on the myth backend? I've just done some experiments with backend 0.26 and XBMC Myth PVR Plugin; admittedly, my system has a fairly large number of recordings (~ 4800).
>> FWIW, you may want to consider moving any archived shows/movies to
>> Video Library.  At least in mythfrontend, the UI in Video Library is
>> much better for managing large collections of video than that in
>      There are enough options for sorting and organizing your recordings
> that this simply isn't the case. You can make your recordings look pretty
> much the same way they might look in MythVideo.

Spoken by someone who obviously hasn't used Video Library to full 
benefit.  Sure, there's some filtering on categories or recording 
groups, but there's no organizing (other than by title).  I'll bet you 
would see what I mean if you had 4k recordings in Watch Recordings.  4k 
recordings implies a huge number of titles--such that just scrolling 
down to the M's or whatever--even using PageUp/Down--would take a very 
long time, a.k.a. an annoyingly-long time.

>       The main problem I would see with ANY alternative viewer for Myth
> recordings would be dealing with the embedded commercial breaks. This
> goes for anything that's attempting to be a replacement frontend or
> something that's just trying to play raw recording files.

Agreed.  mythfrontend is /the/ best frontend to use with MythTV.  (But, 
hey, if someone is dead set on throwing out the baby, the basin, the 
plumbing, the water tower, and the water-processing facility with the 
bathwater...)

Mike