[mythtv-users] comment on lugins

[David Brieck Jr.]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 9:05 AM, James Linder <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:

>  Hi
> For many years I've used a myth system to record and watch tv. That works
> well and I'm happy.
>
> When I needed an entertainment center for saturation divers who spend upto
> 28 days closed in the chamber or 17 odd hours decompressing from 300 m
> (sic) with all the hastles of gas mixture changes etc to stay alive I
> immediately thought of mythtv.
>
> I'm posting this, as an invite for comments or to be straightened out
> where I'm misguided.
> For my testing I setup a mythbuntu 14.04 system with netvision.
>
> First I tried mythmusic. Compared to amarock or clementine this is
> terrible and scarsely usable. There is no obvious way to select a song
> (welcome to the long list). Scanning is a pain. How can myth create such
> crap? Wow, blown away.
>
> Next I tried netvision. On par with mythmusic. First pass at browse
> internet videos I selected TED and YouTube.
> I no longer have the selection I just have TED/YouTube
>
> I can browse YouTube but when I try to play something I get 'unknown error'
> Using the Chrome browser on it's own everything works normally.
>
> Why am I having such a torrid time, yet the tools seem well accepted and
> people are happy with them?
>
> Thanks
> James
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I don't waste my time using Myth for anything other that recording/watching
TV and stored videos. Music playing and anything streaming is just not
worth the effort.

Drop $30 on a Roku stick and everyone should be happy.
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