<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Brian J. Murrell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@interlinx.bc.ca" target="_blank">brian@interlinx.bc.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 22:27 +0100, Paul Harrison wrote:<br>
> With all the talk of users preferring to use XBMC my question is simple.<br>
><br>
> What needs to change to make you want to use MythTV again?<br>
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</div>To be clear, all of the talk is about XBMC as a mythfrontend replacement<br>
only. We are all happy (enough) with the backend.<br>
<br>
I looked into XBMC initially for it's streaming/casting capabilities, to<br>
see if I could cast a stream from my tablet, say to XBMC and onto my TV.<br>
<br>
I think ultimately XBMC just has more of a critical mass and therefore<br>
more contribution and therefore more possibilities in terms of what you<br>
and your TV can do.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
b.<br>
<br></blockquote></div>IMO.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I WANT to use mythtv to watch tv and recorded tv. It does this very well.<br>I like to use xbmc for everything else.<br>Why? <br>It is prettier. Kinda lame but I like the fancy graphics and the click sound when moving through menu items.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">It plays ANY video I throw at it. Now I might be out of date because I switched to xbmc to watch movies a few years ago. I got tired of trying to figure out why myth would not play some videos.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">With xbmc. I have never had a time when the video would not play.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Streaming video from the web. Hulu integration is supreme with xbmc. Sports devil works well. And all the other plugins I have tried work.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">Playing music. I personally got confused with the tree layout of myth music list. I know that many discussions were had on how the music should be laid out using myth. With xbmc, one can easily sort the music anyway they want.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">Installation was a breeze. Everything was automatically found. Sound settings for hdmi stereo and tv just worked right out the box <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
I am not a mythtv hater. It is by far the best for watching and recording tv shows. That is what it was designed to do and it does it well.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"></div><div class="gmail_extra">But for everything else, I prefer xbmc for its ease of use and simple configuration.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Right now my menu is setup with a button to launch xbmc from the main menu. This gives me the best of both worlds.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
Myth backend is supreme. Nothing can compete with it. Nothing.</div>
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