[mythtv-users] MythTV vs XBMC

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Fri May 9 06:53:04 UTC 2014


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 4:11 AM, Jim Oltman <jim.oltman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:21 AM, John Marshall <mythtv at marshallparty.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 5/8/2014 9:17 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 09:08 -0400, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is commercial skipping now supported on the XBMC MythTV plugin?
>>>
>>>
>>> It is, but it's either none or automatic.  No option to just have keys
>>> which skip using the commercial break information.
>>
>>
>> That's a serious knock in my book.  Skipping in general seems better on
>> Mythfrontend.
>
>
>>
>> ..deletia
>
>
> OK, so just playing the "what if" game, if the Myth devs dropped Frontend
> from their work, they could focus on making the PVR-CMyth plugin better to
> add this exact functionality.
>
>>
>> Another dealbreaker is the lack (I think) of timestretch in XBMC.
>
>
> Same as above.
>>
>>
>> XBMC can probably do these two things, but I have buttons on my remote
>> dedicated to bringing up the guide in Live TV, and also for cycling through
>> the zoom options, both of which are very also important to me.
>
>
> I have had issues with this on XBMC.  Dedicated buttons for zoom control
> would be nice.  But, with all the time the devs would have freed up from
> MythFE dev work, maybe they could submit patches to fix this.
>>
>>
>> As far as eye candy and metadata and things like that, XBMC may do it
>> better, but it's not that important to me.  Vertical lists of
>> titles/filenames is good enough for me, and in fact animations or anything
>> else that reduce the speed and responsiveness of the UI are negatives in my
>> book.
>
>
> Then get an XBMC skin that meets your needs. The animations don't seem any
> slower than when I went into Videos from the main screen in my MythFE.
>>
>>
>> I like that recorded programs are separate from long-term media.
>
>
> I don't understand this point.  In my XBMC, I have things separated.  MythBE
> has it's own VM and storage.  XBMC has several NFS shares.  I have media
> separated like this:
>
> TV Shows
> Concerts
> Music
> Movies
>
> This is the way that XBMC says you should have things stored and it works.
> So it seems that long-term media and recordings are separated by more than
> just where they live in the file system.  In XBMC, I go to LiveTV then hit
> down arrow to find my recordings.  Or I can go to TV Shows or Movies.  This
> is helpful in that by separating the content (Movies/TV) you can set each
> folder for a specific meta data grabber.  This works quite well.  I've also
> started renaming movies & put them in their own folder.
>
> Django Unchained (2012)/Django Unchained (2012).mkv
>
> This way, if I want to store subtitles with the movie, I can download them
> (using an awesome plugin) and save them to the correct folder.

The XBMC subtitle addon is fantastic!


>  Cover
> art/NFO files are also saved to that folder.  It's just cleaner.
>
> ..Deletia
>>
>> John
>
>
> Basically it seems that lots of people are not wanting to give up something
> they're accustomed to.  I can understand that.  However, XBMC has a lot more
> going for it.  Why re-invent the wheel?  Why not partner up and try to make
> XBMC better for all?  I'm sure some will say "Choice is a good thing!" and
> they're correct.  However, it seems that everyone wants XBMC features
> crammed into MythFE but a simpler interface.  That's going to take years to
> get there (if ever).
>
> I hope people won't say that XBMC is impossible to get new/better features
> built in because of it's size.  Just a version or 2 ago, the Audio Engine in
> XBMC was a disheveled mess.  They rebuilt it from the ground up and now it
> can handle the same audio that MythFE can.  So, rebuilds of these critical
> components can and do happen.
>
>
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