[mythtv-users] Myth client for Windows?

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Darrin <mtv at aperature.org> wrote:
>
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> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Marko Nurmenniemi
> <marko.nurmenniemi at kolumbus.fi> wrote:
>>
>> Darrin wrote:
>> >
>>  > I was playing with MythTV Player for Windows today.  While the stable
>> > version of the program works nicely, the development releases all gave
>> > me an odd error saying that they don't speak protocol version 40.
>> > Apparently the newer versions only speak older protocol versions 15 to
>> > 36.  Thought it was odd that a newer client would be taking a step
>> > backwards like that.
>> >
>>
>> You do know that the version/protocol check can bedisabled in the config
>> file?
>
> Yes - the developers are very good at telling people that.  However, it
> doesn't make sense, to me anyway, that I didn't make any changes to either
> config file and yet they display the behavior I described.  I checked the
> contents of the  config files between the stable and the development
> versions and there don't appear to be any entries to force the connection in
> either of them.  It's a moot point anyway.  This project doesn't appear to
> be maintained at the moment, so it's probably not worth it to even submit it
> as a bug report.  One user posted the problem to the project forum many
> months ago and has yet to get a response.
>
> Does anyone know of a current project for a windows front end?  I checked
> the archives, but everything that was referenced seems to be dead for over 6
> months.  I did read about a port of mythfrontend to Windows, but it does
> seem strange to me that no one has posted about it since last spring and the
> only option is to build it from scratch.  In the windows world, there aren't
> a lot of end users that are willing to undertake that kind of effort to get
> it working on their systems.
>

I assume you have seen this thread?

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/329417

(although as you say, its 6 months old).