<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Jeremy Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremy.dwain.jones@gmail.com">jeremy.dwain.jones@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Matt Emmott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:memmott@gmail.com" target="_blank">memmott@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div>
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<div>On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Steven Adeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com" target="_blank">adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>
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<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/09/ubuntu-tv-making-its-debut-at-ces/" target="_blank">http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/09/ubuntu-tv-making-its-debut-at-ces/</a><br>
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some very nice interface ideas. I'm wondering if these things could be<br>
done in MythTV with the current theme abilities?<br>
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--<br></blockquote></div><div><br>I just came in to see if anybody had posted about this yet - What's the underlying tuning technology? Is it MythTV or did Canonical roll their own? </div></div>
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What about MythTV and XBMC?</h3></blockquote><div>According to Ubuntu's website here: <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/tv/contributors" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntu.com/tv/contributors</a> </div><div>They are working with Mythtv and xbmc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Very interesting. Can any Dev's weigh in on this?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Below text pasted from <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/tv/contributors" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntu.com/tv/contributors</a> </div>
<div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><br><span style="line-height:1.4;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:Ubuntu,'Ubuntu Beta',UbuntuBeta,Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif">Myth TV and XBMC are popular open-source TV projects, particularly in the Ubuntu community. We’re very pleased to collaborate with members of both communities, enhancing the quality of back-end code that is shared between projects.</span><br>
<span style="line-height:1.4;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:Ubuntu,'Ubuntu Beta',UbuntuBeta,Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif">Our focus is to bring a Unity front end to the TV, suitably adapted to the entertainment, lean-back experience of the living room, but there are plenty of areas where our needs intersect perfectly with those of other communities.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.4">Is this just a different front-end using a myth-tv backend for the recordings?</span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p style="padding:0px;border-width:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;margin:0px 300px 10px 0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:Ubuntu,'Ubuntu Beta',UbuntuBeta,Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif">
Jeremy</p></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br>I tend to go with a TL;DR approach and didn't read that far down in the article till now, thanks. XBMC has been working on a unified front end for multiple backends for years now, and it has never really taken off. From that article it looks to me like Canonical took some XBMC front end pieces, muddied it to add a Unity look and feel, and set it to connect to MythTV for the back end. <br>
<br>I wonder if they have any hardware partners or if this can easily be shoveled onto a Google TV. Since Google TV boxes are now 80 bucks refurb'ed, this could be viable if they can get H.264 decoding and the like to work.<br>
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