<div id="_htmlarea_default_style_" style="font:10pt arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><br><br>On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 10:38:09
-0700<br> Brian Wood <beww@beww.org> wrote:<br>> On Wednesday 06 January 2010 10:33:07 am Aaron
wrote:<br>>> OK, I moved to Myth not long ago from the MCE camp. I <br>>>like Linux and<br>>> can get
around quite well; but... the wife and kids are <br>>>not so<br>>> impressed. The wife loves the commercial
skip process <br>>>and personally<br>>> so do I, but for everything else we are kinda at a loss.
<br>>>Nothing<br>>> really feels stable to us, the front end will randomly <br>>>crash (if
you<br>>> stop the TV it sometimes just exits to the desktop). <br>>>This isn't a big<br>>> deal for
me, i'll just grab the mouse, but it's not <br>>>acceptable to the<br>>> wife or kids (they only want to use
the remote). I <br>>>listen to music a<br>>> lot, and as many have seen on this list, the music
<br>>>section of Myth<br>>> leaves a lot to be desired. Movies for the kids, just <br>>>isn't
working<br>>> like I want, I want a movie db, not a list of files. I <br>>>need it as<br>>> simple as
possible for the kids and wife to just click <br>>>on the movie<br>>> they want, maybe this is a over site
on my behalf, but <br>>>it seemed to be<br>>> a lot of work to just get it to display just
movies.<br>>> <br>>> Next we tried XBMC for our front end, it's great, but it <br>>>also has
it's<br>>> issues... I have XBMC set to load Myth TV through their <br>>>native<br>>> settings.
Watching TV works, but commercials show. What <br>>>do i need to<br>>> set in Myth to make the commercials
go away, or does <br>>>that only work<br>>> when using Mythfrontend?<br>>> <br>>> My next step
is going back to Win7 MCE, but I still want <br>>>to use Myth<br>>> TV. So I'm thinking of moving
Mythbackend to a dedicated <br>>>server in my<br>>> server room, and using it's uPNP abilities to allow MCE
<br>>>to watch TV,<br>>> live TV will be done via a Aver"pos"media tuner; that <br>>>might or
might<br>>> not work depending on the day, and how it feels.<br>>> <br>>> Am I going about this in the
wrong way? I need a high <br>>>WAF, KAF, FAF<br>>> rating, and I think it's negative right now...(on all
<br>>>fronts).<br>> <br>> Commercial skip will only work when using the Myth <br>>frontend, unless you
cut <br>> the spots out first.<br><br>I have a dedicated Fedora server for backend and other stuff. We have a
Win 7 machine in the family room (common TV room) and typically use Myth Player (a Windows program) to view. It
uses the cutlist generated by the commflag process. If you need to keep a Win machine there, this may work for
you.<br><br></div>