[mythtv-users] FLOSS MC Survey closing date

Giovani Spagnolo giovani at telematicsfreedom.org
Thu Aug 7 12:52:26 UTC 2008


The GUIGuy wrote:
> I certainly don't know everything because I only recently deserted the 
> Vista Media  Center Camp. But like the other respondents here I too 
> found the "How many whatever" questions meaningless & confusing and gave 
> up half way through. All I know is Myth seems to support all of the 
> mainstream stuff as long as I do certain things at setup time. Although 
> I suspect it does a lot more when I get my head sorted.
>
> And I am convinced that struggling users don't play around with MythTv 
> for too long. Tivo and PVRs are easier.
>
> As my wife said to me last week as I sat there cursing the boot hard 
> disks that had gone down, "You must be mad!"
>
>
> Cheers
>
> The GuiGuy
>   
:-)

Well yes, the question regarding the file formats wasn't really well 
formed and in fact we are not considering it anymore. We'll replace that 
in the final paper by which is the audio/video handling softwares, since 
almost all projects use FFmpeg, gstreamer, mplayer, xine, etc and even 
documentation of those projects do not state "how many" formats they 
support... We received many notes about this mistake.

Yet it doesn't change the final goal: inform people on current state of 
art for floss media centers. It's a small initiative we think may help 
many people looking for their perfect match...  ;-)

thank you for your considerations and help to improve our work,
cheers,
giovani



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