[mythtv-users] *** mythfrontend is not being removed ***

[scram69]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 5:18 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 5:13 PM Larry Kennedy <lunchtimelarry at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 4:59 AM, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 26/03/2018 23:29, David Engel wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:40:30PM +0100, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 26/03/2018 15:24, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi All
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Paul Harrison's April Fool's joke about removing mythfrontend seems to
>>>>>> have been taken seriously by many folks. There are no plans for that,
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> fact we plan to expand the frontend to support Android TV devices like
>>>>>> the NVidia Shield.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Any chance of supporting the Amazon Fire stick?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When hardware decoding is added, there's a good chance it will work
>>>> for progressive content.  I believe the current FireTV (not stick)
>>>> supports hardware deinterlacing so it will proably work for interlaced
>>>> content too.  The older FireTVs and sticks, including the current one,
>>>> could be out of luck or have to accept inferior deinterlacing.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Amazing! I've been pleased to see my frontends diminish in size over the
>>> years, and imagined that trend might continue, but I'd never considered
>>> the possibility of its physical form, in effect, disappearing
>>> altogether.
>>>
>>>
>> Thank God!  That was a horrible joke to those of us who use the Myth FE
>> and are hooked on the commercial skip feature not available elsewhere.
>>
>>
>
> Plex DVR will show you an image of the place you are in the show when
> skipping forward and has the option to transcode the commercials out. They
> don't allow automatically skipping commercials without cutting them out
> which is odd.
>
> So the functionality does exist elsewhere to some degree.
> --
> -Thomas
>
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Sigh.  No, not odd; probably just following their lawyers' advice:

http://articles.latimes.com/2001/nov/01/business/fi-64059

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