[mythtv-users] OT: I'm streaming Netflix on my Linux box

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Oct 7, 2008, at 3:33 PM, jedi wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:42:47PM -0400, Matt Emmott wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Jason Sullivan  
>> <jason0x21 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> No feathers ruffled here.  I'm intrigued.  Is XBMC required for  
>>> this,
>>> or can MythTV be a UPnP client without it?
>>> XBMC seems a lot to install just to be a client with many of the
>>> features already in the MythTV frontend.  Or am I missing something
>>> here?
>>>
>>> --
>>
>>
>> XBMC, in my opinion, is a much better front end for audio & video  
>> than Myth.
>> The interface and usability are slicker and more usable than  
>> mythmusic and
>> mythvideo as far as I'm concerned. But yes, it does not add much  
>> more in the
>
>    Well, how exactly?
>
>    We can corner some of the devs in a room and not let them leave
> until they make some improvements... '-)

They've already cornered themselves in their respective rooms and are  
redesigning the entire foundation the UI is built on.