[mythtv] Whats the deal with usability

[Kevin Kuphal]

Imran K wrote:
> This message is intended to be constuctive and light hearted.
>
> I am a linux/networking junkie who has tried most distro's on the 
> market and hacked up a few HDTV boxes.
>
> As yet, I am yet to try Myth personally. Mased on the several articles 
> I have read, Myth is not easy to deploy and configure.
>
> What are the main issues (wholistically) that prevent myth being 
> deployed smoothly and easily.
>
>
> Some ideas;
>  
>             Hardware Compatibility
>                  -drivers
>                  -various formats and standards
>             User Skill Level
>                  -is Myth intended for skilled user only and many
>             Platform Maturity
>                  -is the platform (various softs used) not muture 
> enough to stably provide what is needed.
>            Hardware Maturity
>           (as above)
>
> I'm interested to see what you chaps who are in the trenches have to 
> say about this?
>
>  people do not have the required skillsets
>
My thoughts are that if you have the right hardware for the job (which 
you get automatically with Tivo, etc. but you have to research a little 
for Myth), that you can get a Myth system set up in a matter of hours.  
With two distro based installers and the other packages based as well as 
compiling from source, there are options for the least to most 
sophisticated users.

I feel that most people fall flat because they chose or use hardware 
that does not work out of the box with Linux and therefore they run into 
problems.

Kevin