<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 5 Jun 2021, at 6:47 am, Phill Edwards <<a href="mailto:philledwards@gmail.com" class="">philledwards@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 4 Jun 2021, 11:27 pm Paul Harrison, <<a href="mailto:mythtv@mythqml.net" class="">mythtv@mythqml.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br class="">
<br class="">So the question is what improvements would you like to see in MythTV in <br class="">
the future that would persuade you to continue to use it? Would you like <br class="">
to see better support for YouTube for example or a better video media <br class="">
library. Better music player? Support for IPTV services? What plugins do <br class="">
you use? What plugins would you like to see? Are you happy with the <br class="">
user interface or would you like to see a more modern one?<br class=""></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">I've been using MythTV for 20 years. These days I still record FTA but even though I love Mythfrontend I use other frontends to watch (such as Leanfront from a Google TV device). </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">I agree with other commenters that the loss of MythBuntu was huge because that made a very complex setup process easier. And the LIRC setup is impossible difficult to expect most people to deal with. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">I had a play with TV Headend a while back. It's back-end only, but the installation and setup is quick and easy so worth looking at for ideas on how to improve ease of install for MythTV. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">The other area I think could be improved a lot is channel setup, especially rescans and the issues that causes with duplicate channels I remember it being a lot easier in TV Headend.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">I really hope MythTV doesn't go away because it's incredibly powerful. But I guess that's also why it's difficult for people who don't like to fiddle with tech. </div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>An issue that incessantly bugs me is meta data. Without doubt some of the issues are not myth but provider but some are myth. EG I retrieve meta data and get correct meta data and artwork. I press [accept] and nothing happens (often it works, often it does not)</div><div>Once the video library reaches 100s or 1000s of entries not-having meta data is a real pain. Either other folk do not have issues or noone cares.</div><div>What other options do I have, that will preserve or easily retrieve meta data. I tried to untangle myth's version but it is complex and so far I've failed.</div><div>In terms of 'going away' I cannot believe that myth codebase will be trashed and building is easy enough so git and make are your friends.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>To justify my provider gybe try to retrieve meta data for 'The Gradute' (Dustin Hofman as a youngie)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>James</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>