On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Matthew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:m.mythtv@grojguys.com">m.mythtv@grojguys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<font face="Tahoma">I'm just coming up to speed with being a MythTV
power-user, so maybe I'm not understanding all the dynamics here. But
I have a question.... <br>
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I just came across XBMC and installed it on my Gentoo MythTV
front-end/back-end system. The UI is phenomenal, plus it has native
capability to serve as a front-end for MythTV. Plus there are
numerous plug-ins and scripts to support lots of streaming video and
audio sources/websites. XBMC is of course originally for XBox, but is
now available for Linux, Mac, and Windows as well.<br>
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My question is, what would be the reason *not* to use XBMC as a
front-end for MythTV, and leave MythTV to the PVR thing it is really
good at? There are already plenty of XBMC plugins, but only a few for
MythTV. Seems like this might even expand the popularity of MythTV.<br>
</font></div></blockquote></div><br>commercial skipping, scheduling, recording groups, and many other features that are in mythfrontend and XBMC can't provide yet.<br>