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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/20/2012 01:04 PM, Nick Rout
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Mark
Greenwood <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div class="h5">On Tuesday 20 Nov 2012 10:17:10 Mark wrote:<br>
> On 2012-11-20 9:43 AM, Mark Greenwood wrote:<br>
> > On Tuesday 20 Nov 2012 10:21:56 Michael T. Dean
wrote:<br>
> >> On 11/20/2012 02:05 AM, Phill Edwards wrote:<br>
> >>>> I have to ask whether it's time for
the folks interested in coding the<br>
> >>>> frontend bits to give up on the Myth
frontend as it's own stand-alone<br>
> >>>> app (along with all of it's failing
bits) and instead take the<br>
> >>>> working-really-well bits and provide
XBMC with first class Myth playback<br>
> >>>> capabilities.<br>
> >>>><br>
> >>> I love mythfrontend and I find it very
disappointing that people want<br>
> >>> to get rid of it as I don't think
whatever replaces it will be as good<br>
> >>> for TV recording playback. Sure XBMC
looks good but I think features<br>
> >>> come first.<br>
> >>><br>
> >> And, FWIW, mythfrontend can look /very/
good, too--just requires some<br>
> >> people to actually help with theming it
(rather than just saying that<br>
> >> XBMC is better and recommending we drop
mythfrontend)...<br>
> >><br>
> > Yes, the MythMediaStream theme looks really
good, but it does use up a shedload of RAM. IMO all the
XBMC themes look great, they're easy to navigate, and seem
to use far less memory - which is significant for many who
run a frontend on a small PC.<br>
> ><br>
> > But it's not al about eye candy. I've been
experimenting with XMBC as a frontend and the setup is SO
much simpler - I haven't had to faff with sysctl.conf,
udev rules, (for RTC timing) or even the dreaded LIRC. It
all just worked (apart from the usual type of faffing with
xorg.conf). And A/V sync is spot on with all sources,
including TV - which it wasn't with mythtv 0.26.<br>
> ><br>
> > I'm sure mythfrontend is extremely capable (I
know it is, I went to the trouble of setting it up) but
using XBMC gives me more beer time. I think that perhaps
when people say 'XBMC is better' they might mean 'I
managed to get XBMC to work so I'm using it because I gave
up on mythfrontend after 3 days'.<br>
> ><br>
> > Mark<br>
> > _______________________________________________<br>
> > mythtv-users mailing list<br>
> > <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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> > <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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> Pardon the slightly off topic.<br>
> There is no xbmc plugin for mythtv 26 is there?<br>
> I would like to look at it if so.<br>
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No but there is a mythtv plugin for xbmc, which I think is
what you want. It allows you to use xmbc as a frontend for
your mythtv backend. It is, however, experimental and
currently only works with the development version of xbmc and
the add-on itself has to be built from source. It's all on the
xbmc downloads page if you're interested. It's what I'm now
using as my main frontend.<br>
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There are several routes to mythtv in XBMC, including:<br>
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The PVR plugin I think you are referring to, build
instructions here <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=PVR/Backend/MythTV/BuildFromSource">http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=PVR/Backend/MythTV/BuildFromSource</a>.
Seems to work with 0.25 backend, but needs XBMC 12 (currently
beta) and to compile the plugin. As the instructions show,
this is not hard.<br>
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Mythbox, works against 0.25 if you have XBMC 12 (I think) and
get the plugin's forked version from here: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/mitchcapper/mythbox">https://github.com/mitchcapper/mythbox</a><br>
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The myth:// protocol built in to XBMC - no plugin needed, but
it is pretty basic. You specify a url like
myth://user:password@backend and that's all you need to do.<br>
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There are probably others too - some historical (ie no longer
work).<br>
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Are there any that work with 26?<br>
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