<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Oct 7, 2008, at 6:01 PM, Matt Emmott wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:33 PM, jedi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br> ><br> > XBMC, in my opinion, is a much better front end for audio & video than Myth.<br> > The interface and usability are slicker and more usable than mythmusic and<br> > mythvideo as far as I'm concerned. But yes, it does not add much more in the<br> <br> </div> Well, how exactly?<br> <br> We can corner some of the devs in a room and not let them leave<br> until they make some improvements... '-)<br> <div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>First let me say that I'm in no way poo-pooing on any piece of Myth or its developers. The programmers have done a fantastic job with this product and I don't pretend to know the first thing about programming. Not to mention they do it for no money and the only thing I've ever put money towards other than hardware is a Schedules Direct subscription, andhave received a wonderful product in return.</div> <div><br>That being said, the look, feel and general UI of Mythmusic & Mythdvd are just terrible. XBMC looks nice, is very snappy and is (for the most part) pretty intuitive. It's still buggy, sure, but for the most part will throw any video format thrown at it, be it an ISO of a DVD, Xvid / Flash / Mkv / Quicktime / etc. On the audio side it plays all the happy formats you'd expect, offers a library option to index all your songs, will read iTunes DAAP data and playlists, and has some pretty nice fullscreen visualizations. Oh, and it downloads the album art / DVD covers for all your media on the fly without need for a third-party scraper.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I'm not going to pretend I know how xbmc works, but I *guarantee* it pulls the CD and DVD cover art from some 3rd party site.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Obviously the XBMC folks have had a head start. Since, until recently, everything was developed for the same platform (the 733MHZ) Xbox, they could focus more on usability than compatibility. But I love the product and don't see myself using anything else for music / movies on the big screen for quite some time.<br> </div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>We all know the UI sucks. It's being redone. Honestly.</div><div><br></div></body></html>