[mythtv-users] low family acceptance factor; need advice

[Aaron]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:06 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 11:12:01AM -0700, mythtv at blandford.net wrote:
>> On 01/06/2010 10:33 AM, Aaron wrote:
>
> [deletia]
>
>> Mythvideo has several views.  There is a folder view, gallery view,
>> etc.  Toggling that view may well give you what you want.
>>
>> I  am assuming you have also used mythvideo to pull down metadata
>> for your videos so you get movie information and covers.
>>
>>
>> >Am I going about this in the wrong way? I need a high WAF, KAF, FAF
>> >rating, and I think it's negative right now...(on all fronts).
>>
>> While myth isn't perfect, you should be able to get the WAF factor
>> high enough that the benefits of myth outway the shortcomings and
>> easily beats MCE.
>
> ...on the one hand, the automated metadata management of mythvideo is not
> nearly as good as XBMC. On the other hand, "the simple interface" for managing
> a video library pretty much is a file manager. This is the case even if
> coverflow happens to be there to distract you from the fact.
>
>   "can I search by actor" is an interesting question but not one that probably
> has much effect on WAF in practice.
> _______________________________________________

Yes, the XBMC interface is more of what we are looking for, but with
no TV support obviously it fails.

Ultimately I would love to see Myth TV for TV/Recording and XBMC for
everything else... but 2 different camps, with 2 different ideals it
seems...