[mythtv-users] Mythtv "image"

[Tim Draper]

---- On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 16:28:34 +0000 jedi  wrote ---- 
>On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 05:53:37PM -0700, Jerome Yuzyk wrote: 
>> On Saturday, January 23, 2016 04:18:58 PM Ian Evans wrote: 
>> > I posted a pro-MythTV tweet with my @torontoota acct and one of the 
>> > responses was that our beloved PVR is "too expensive to build, too hard to 
>> > set up, too expensive to operate and there are at least half a dozen 
>> > better options". 
>> > 
>> > I have never seen it that way. From install boot to first recording was 
>> > less than half an hour. You can make a low power combined fe/be. I pay two 
>> > bucks a month for listings. 
>> > 
>> > Does myth have an image problem? I didn't think so. 
>> 
>> Whining from someone who fashioned themself an expert, but wasn't expert enough to make it work. And geez, it's Twitter, not a bastion of well-considered opinionating. 
> 
> Anything associated with Linux is going to have the "too hard" label 
>attached to it. It doesn't matter how easy and automated it really is. It's 
>going to get labeled as if it were something from the 90s. 

mythtv itself - no, but since it's based on linux, yes.
I've had a number of issues at a linux level surounding my mythtv setup. pretty much all down to hardware choice but some at a driver level (things like resuming my NUC FE from sleep - it doesnt like it). that turns into a usability issue and if your stubborn enough to want sleep/resume to work, rather than 5 seconds more for a cold boot from SSD, then your in for a hard time of trial & error finding a solution.

there are still some annoying bugs in livetv that could stop potential new users if they knew about it, or enough to become frustrated with it and dump it for another product. I know i've looked at other projects because of it. Issues like low-buffer stuttering on HD channels requiring a 2sec pause & play and vaapi/mpeg decoding when switching channels are two i encounter and reduce usability/WAF.