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<p>Am 2013-03-14 00:23, schrieb Paul Harrison:</p>
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<pre>On 13/03/13 14:31, Robert Siebert wrote:</pre>
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<blockquote type="cite" style="padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2px solid; margin-left:5px; width:100%">After trying (and failing) to use MythNetvision some time ago, I decided to try again last night. Here's what I found, after much digging and debugging: - thewb.py works fine. - comedycentral.py fails, due to 404s. I assume the search mechanism and RSS feed locations have moved within the site. - mtv.py fails, but silently. If you view the XML returned by their API, it says the API being used has been deprecated. - pbs.py complains that there are "No Xslt results" for a whole bunch of URLs, even though these URLs do return feeds. Perhaps the script is using the wrong DTD or something. - hulu.py fails, also due to 404s. I have searched trac and master on git, but nobody seems to be working on this plugin. I can't believe nobody has noticed these problems before, though. Did I just miss something, or should I try to fix the scripts myself?</blockquote>
It would be best if you do the changes and create a ticket in trac. For my opinion it would also be best to create a pull request in github so the change can be applied from there. It looks like the mythtv development is stalling, the devs numbers are shrinking and the remaining ones are very busy. They are purely concentrating on the tv and recording functionality. no plugin has been updated in a while. And unfortunately the devs don't apply many useful tickets or pull requests from github like xbmc does. Not even a simple two-liner patch. This really reduces the motivation to contribute. Even useful mythmusic changes are not cherry-picked from pauls repository. Sorry for being so naggy, I had to say this. best regards Robert S</blockquote>
<pre>I'm glad I'm not the only one to see things have really slowed down.
According to a dev I spoke to, one of few that is actually still
speaking to me :), the 0.27 release will be more of a bug fix release
with no new major features added but if that was true wouldn't you think
the first thing to look at would be the 500+ trac tickets?
I'm sad to say that recently I've actually been looking at xbmc as an
alternative at least for video playback . Even had a play with torc
today in the hope there has been some progress there, sadly doesn't look
like there has been much visible progress in the torc-client but I can
see Mark is still plugging away at it.
Paul H.
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<p>Wow only bug fixes? Sad to see that. In the past they had some nice ambitions like commercial detection via GPU or adding animations to the UI. But since mark has left, the UI development pretty much stopped. I hoped so long that they would have updated the plugins, have included UI animations, better scrolling, fading in/out and making this all dependable on certain events and available via the theme.</p>
<p>MythTV is superb with TV and recording stuff but the plugins are lacking a lot of basic features. No automatic artist grabbing in mythmusic, background image slideshows while listening to music, browsing music and images while the video is playing in the background, the image exif orientation is not considered in the gallery plugin, no plugin system so other people can just code some and so on...</p>
<p>Due to the missing features I have switched to XBMC since Frodo beta 1 with the MythTV as a backend. It outperforms MythTV in every aspect except the two remaining killer features: The stuff that has to do with recordings and the player which allows you to watch shows slower or faster. But it was not enough for me.</p>
<p>I guess for you its harder to switch because you would abandon your mythmusic plugin. :-) But for me using XBMC as the frontend for images, plugins, media, videos, music and MythTV as the PVR backend is a good solution.</p>
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