<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:40 PM, jk90090 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jk90090@gmail.com">jk90090@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="im">On 2/16/12 1:32 PM, Tom Lichti wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:25 PM, jedi<<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
</div><div class="im">> Yes, and the forum posts are interesting as well. Lots of MythTV<br>
> bashing, but nothing really constructive. This is a gem:<br>
><br>
> "I've been running MythTV for 5+ years now, and frankly, it hasn't<br>
> changed much. "<br>
><br>
> Seriously? I've been running it for much longer than that (almost 8<br>
> years) and if you can't see that it's changed, you are missing<br>
> something. Glasses perhaps.<br>
><br>
> For something truly 'old fashioned', try your local cable co's PVR offering...<br>
><br>
</div>The competition isn't the local cable co PVR, it's Tivo, Windows Media<br>
Center, and other good software based PVRs. I agree that MythTV hasn't<br>
advanced much in reality. It's still doing the same thing it did 9<br>
years ago generally except better (VDPAU and storage pools for<br>
example). I'm OK with that though. I am however disappointed by area<br>
like streaming to phones, laptops, transcoding, etc are still woefully<br>
under featured comparatively. Also, I'm a bit unhappy that major bugs<br>
are taking and exceptionally long to fix, YET I am still understanding<br>
since we are talking about a community coded software project and I'm<br>
lucky to get even this amount of support.<br>
<br>
My 1/2 cent.<br>
<br>
-JK<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">_______________________________________________<br>
<br></div></div></blockquote><div>MythTV has a TON of awesome features slightly under the hood, in what I'd call the power-user or tweaker zone. Things like userjobs, mythjobqueue among BEs, automatic commercial skip, tunability of anti-aliasing, etc etc. The problem is that while these things are nice once you've used MythTV for a while, it is lacking quite a bit in the casual user zone. <br>
<br>A lot of the whiz-bang features that grab people's attention just aren't there, or aren't that easy to implement. Things like: Streaming to phones or mobile devices, a slick UI, Airplay support, podcast support etc etc are all things that are sort of possible in one way or another but not easily implemented until you really start digging deeper. <br>
<br>MythTV is a great system with a great infrastructure, but it's under siege from all sides, partially because it does so much. When I demo some of the features of Myth to my friends they are super impressed, but when they see how much work it is to implement these things, they back away to something easier like Boxee or just Netflix or Hulu. What MythTV needs is a PT Barnum with some real talents that can design, present and implement more end-user whiz-bang features and create a bit of an easy point of entry to get people interested. MythBuntu is a step in the right direction but it's not what I would call "easy" unless you've already spent some quality time with MythTV. <br>
<br>I'm rambling a bit and probably not making a lot of good points but yeah, that's my two cents.<br></div></div><br>