A third for how much better the XBMC is for music and videos. I use Myth for recording TV, but I export my shows to a Linux server as MPGs or AVIs and watch them on the XBMC. The interface is just much slicker and more fluid. If there were a way to mash the two together it would be awesome.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Anthony Giggins</b> <<a href="mailto:seven@seven.dorksville.net">seven@seven.dorksville.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Yeah I agree, the XBMC Gui is far superior to the Mythtv Frontend if this<br>became the sudo mythtv frontend this would be a big step forward for both<br>platforms, the main reasons for the port is the lack of High Def support on
<br>Xbox and to further increase the user/dev base for XBMC.<br><br><br>On 8/22/07, Phill Edwards <<a href="mailto:philledwards@gmail.com">philledwards@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > With this great news I hope this further integrates mythtv and XBMC :)
<br>> ><br>> > <a href="http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/index.php?title=Linux_port_project">http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/index.php?title=Linux_port_project</a><br>><br>> I'm not sure how it would be better than a mythfrontend. The main
<br>> value I see in this at the moment is that booting linux on an Xbox<br>> takes a long time and it runs slowly, whereas the XBMC solution turns<br>> an Xbox into a fast booting/performing frontend to access and play
<br>> MythTV recordings. But if you're going to have to boot up linux anyway<br>> the whole boot time problem is still there so you may as well go with<br>> mythfrontend.<br><br><br>IMO (and I'm sure it's shared) XBMC is FAR superior for playing back
<br>videos and music. It has an easy enqueue/playlist building/saving<br>mechanism and is a "front end only" solution. It allows you to play<br>files off a network but also will:<br>-find local files<br>-publish those files using uPnP
<br>-find any other XBMC's on the network (or other uPnP servers) and make<br>their contents browsable.<br><br>This means that while you can store everything on a backend network<br>share it also works just as well finding content on different XBMCs.
<br><br>This is something mythtv sorely lacks. My biggest complaint about<br>Myth is that it's still not sure what's the backend and what's the<br>frontend. Mythvideo "run" on the frontend, but the video list is
<br>shared onto the backend. The same is true with mythmusic.<br><br>In a perfect world myth frontends would only connect on a single port<br>to the mythbackend, and wouldn't need NFS/mysql/etc. In a<br>super-perfect world, mythbackend would be a uPnP server with either
<br>myth-specific extensions for liveTV and scheduling or by using a<br>second "control" port to speak a myth specific protocol (I know work<br>is ongoing for uPnP).<br><br>I LOVE mythtv, and know that it's a labor of love and sweat, so don't
<br>mean this as random bashing, but the overall systems architecture of<br>myth has seemingly evolved and never set down and designed.<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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