Yes, the end user experience isn't good. Yes, it's inconsistent. I have 4 XBMC-based Xboxes in my apartment building that my (very) non-technical neighbors use to stream movies and music from a central server, and in its current iteration I wouldn't think about giving them Myth frontends for anything other than basic tv watching.<br>
<br>But, look at it this way. It's currently at version 0.20.2. That's quite far off from version 1.0. It runs on a huge variety of hardware, from Intel to AMD to NVidia to ATI to Hauppauge to set top boxes over firewire. Each piece of Myth is more or less a different project - Mythvideo, Mythmusic, etc etc. It's a HUGE product that does a lot of different things on different platforms. And it's constantly evoloving and keeping up with the latest standards... Sd, HD, H.264, what have you.<br>
<br>I hate Mythmusic. I hate Mythvideo. I love XBMC for those purposes. But this is not a commercial product, it's a huge open source project. It's coming together a bit slowly, sure, but it is coming together. Look at how fast SchedulesDirect was integrated into Myth when Zap2It went bye bye. As other posters have said, if you don't like it you can change it - That's the joy of open source. I'm no programmer but I like to help out where I can, because I know that one day this product WILL be something I could hand to my neighbors with little to no training. It's just not there yet. Patience is a virtue, right? :-)<br>
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