[mythtv] Interesting Comparison

mythtv at zacglen.com.au mythtv at zacglen.com.au
Fri Mar 3 10:58:24 UTC 2006


>Okay, its head above the parapet time! Guys, guys, what's going on here?
>Isn't this how wars start? Whatever happened to reasoned debate; to the
>freedom to express an opinion without being shot down in flames. So,
>someone has a new tool that he thinks is the dog's wotsits - how is that
>a Bad Thing(tm). Do none of you programmers out there not remember what
>its like to write some code that you think is great and you end up
>boring all your friends with the details. Anyway I digress; my view (for
>what it's worth) is that we should be openminded about any new
>developments, large or small that in any way overlap MythTv's raison
>d'etre. We can't believe that we have a monopoly on good ideas. As soon
>as we stop looking outward, we end up with a product that is in danger
>of becoming stale. Give this guy a chance. We might hate his offering,
>we might like it - who knows, but whatever we do, we should encourage
>this sort of thing rather than flame it. For those of you who remember
>life before Linux, remember what happened to Andrew Tannenbaum of Minix
>fame. He absolutely flamed Linus Torvalds and his software when he
>announced version 0.11 of Linux and within a couple of months he and his
>(up to then) thriving operating system had been consigned to obscurity.
> 
>Oh well, I'll stop ranting now, I guess I've made my point - the
>stupidest idea is one that is never voiced for fear of it being
>ridiculed.
> 
>Time for a lie down in a quiet room, I think :-)
> 

That sounds reasonable to me.

My software isn't supposed to be particularly fantastic.
It is only supposed to work as I want it.

I was faced with a choice - dive into MythTV software and try and figure
out why it was consuming all of my cpu. And, based on my belief that
it was doing software decoding regardless of what I wanted, and also given
that it was recording in a format which wasn't useful for me, I decided
it would probably be more satisfactory to create my own.

Besides, I am not particularly interested in doing any scheduling
on my TV screen - there are so many computers in my house that it
seems plain silly to have to use a clunky IR control with clunky fonts
on a lowish resolution TV screen.

Besides, it is just as easy to plonk my laptop on the coffee table
which just happens to be somewhere in fron of my TV.



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