<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:21 AM, John Marshall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mythtv@marshallparty.org" target="_blank">mythtv@marshallparty.org</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 5/8/2014 9:17 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:<br>
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On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 09:08 -0400, Phil Bridges wrote:<br>
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Is commercial skipping now supported on the XBMC MythTV plugin?<br>
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It is, but it's either none or automatic. No option to just have keys<br>
which skip using the commercial break information.<br>
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That's a serious knock in my book. Skipping in general seems better on Mythfrontend.</blockquote><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
..deletia </blockquote><div><br></div><div>OK, so just playing the "what if" game, if the Myth devs dropped Frontend from their work, they could focus on making the PVR-CMyth plugin better to add this exact functionality.</div>
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Another dealbreaker is the lack (I think) of timestretch in XBMC.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Same as above. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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XBMC can probably do these two things, but I have buttons on my remote dedicated to bringing up the guide in Live TV, and also for cycling through the zoom options, both of which are very also important to me.<br></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>I have had issues with this on XBMC. Dedicated buttons for zoom control would be nice. But, with all the time the devs would have freed up from MythFE dev work, maybe they could submit patches to fix this. </div>
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As far as eye candy and metadata and things like that, XBMC may do it better, but it's not that important to me. Vertical lists of titles/filenames is good enough for me, and in fact animations or anything else that reduce the speed and responsiveness of the UI are negatives in my book.<br>
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I like that recorded programs are separate from long-term media.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't understand this point. In my XBMC, I have things separated. MythBE has it's own VM and storage. XBMC has several NFS shares. I have media separated like this:</div>
<div><br></div><div>TV Shows</div><div>Concerts</div><div>Music</div><div>Movies</div><div><br></div><div>This is the way that XBMC says you should have things stored and it works. So it seems that long-term media and recordings are separated by more than just where they live in the file system. In XBMC, I go to LiveTV then hit down arrow to find my recordings. Or I can go to TV Shows or Movies. This is helpful in that by separating the content (Movies/TV) you can set each folder for a specific meta data grabber. This works quite well. I've also started renaming movies & put them in their own folder.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Django Unchained (2012)/Django Unchained (2012).mkv</div><div><br></div><div>This way, if I want to store subtitles with the movie, I can download them (using an awesome plugin) and save them to the correct folder. Cover art/NFO files are also saved to that folder. It's just cleaner.</div>
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John</font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Basically it seems that lots of people are not wanting to give up something they're accustomed to. I can understand that. However, XBMC has a lot more going for it. Why re-invent the wheel? Why not partner up and try to make XBMC better for all? I'm sure some will say "Choice is a good thing!" and they're correct. However, it seems that everyone wants XBMC features crammed into MythFE but a simpler interface. That's going to take years to get there (if ever).</div>
<div><br></div><div>I hope people won't say that XBMC is impossible to get new/better features built in because of it's size. Just a version or 2 ago, the Audio Engine in XBMC was a disheveled mess. They rebuilt it from the ground up and now it can handle the same audio that MythFE can. So, rebuilds of these critical components can and do happen.</div>
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