<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Steven Adeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com">adeffs.mythtv@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">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Matt Emmott <<a href="mailto:memmott@gmail.com">memmott@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Raymond Wagner <<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On 1/9/2012 16:43, Raymond Wagner wrote:<br>
>> >> Myth TV and XBMC are popular open-source TV projects, particularly in<br>
>> >> the Ubuntu community. We’re very pleased to collaborate with members<br>
>> >> of both communities, enhancing the quality of back-end code that is<br>
>> >> shared between projects.<br>
>> > The only code really shared between both MythTV and XBMC are the FFMPEG<br>
>> > decoding libraries both are based around.<br>
>><br>
>> That actually makes even less sense, since they are using GStreamer<br>
>> instead.<br>
>> _______________________________________________<br>
>><br>
> Looks like Will Cooke from Canonical has been in contact with some Mythbuntu<br>
> devs; maybe they're working exclusively with the Mythbuntu folks.<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-tv/msg00003.html" target="_blank">https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-tv/msg00003.html</a><br>
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</div></div>some more news from phoronix,<br>
<a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0MDc" target="_blank">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0MDc</a><br>
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--</div></blockquote></div>Nice to see that they're making it touchscreen-compatible. I built an HTPC a couple years ago with a Dell all-in-one touchscreen system and it worked fairly well, but not having a "back" on-screen button in Myth or XBMC made it a little cumbersome.<br>
<br>I found this very interesting:<br>Besides using Unity 2D, Ubuntu TV also relies heavily on Canonical's
other innovation they like, Ubuntu One. With Ubuntu One integrated into
Ubuntu TV it's easy to share movies, music, etc between devices.
<br><br>Ubuntu One is their cloud service, right? So, all my media is uploaded to the cloud? First, I have 30GB of music, 2TB of recordings, and 1TB of movie rips. I can't imagine all that data synching all the time. Second, how in the heck do they plan on appeasing copyright holders? The last thing we need are the *AA's cracking down on Ubuntu like they did on ReplayTV a few years ago.<br>