[mythtv-users] OT: XBMC frontend use?

[Thomas Mashos]

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 08:20 +1000, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>>
>> The question we should ask now, is do we drop support for mythfrontend
>> completely and work on a much better integration of XBMC with the myth
>> backend (add support for mythbackend auto detection, support storage group
>> etc). Or do we continue to focus our effort on making the myth frontend
>> better
>
> There's an echo in here.  :-)
>
> I have been "gently"(? I hope at least) making that suggestion for a
> while now.
>
> It has seemed to me for a while now at least that if the effort that is
> currently spread across all of the bits and pieces that the Myth
> frontend does (which replicates much of what XBMC does already) were
> refocused onto XBMC to bring it's PVR functionality up to the level of
> functionality that the frontend has, it would be a net win, IMHO.
>
> Cheers,
> b.
>
>
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With the expectation of having my facts wrong here and the hope that I
don't start another holy war, isn't mythfrontend precisely why a bunch
of the MythTV developers left and started Torc?

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos