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

[Fa]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Aaron <aaron at rb303.net> wrote:

> OK, I moved to Myth not long ago from the MCE camp. I like Linux and
> can get around quite well; but... the wife and kids are not so
> impressed.  The wife loves the commercial skip process and personally
> so do I, but for everything else we are kinda at a loss. Nothing
> really feels stable to us, the front end will randomly crash (if you
> stop the TV it sometimes just exits to the desktop). This isn't a big
> deal for me, i'll just grab the mouse, but it's not acceptable to the
>

1.  Use a HD standalone box like the Asus O!Play media play to access the
files over CIFS or UPNP.  Also it is a media player so it can view photos
and play music.  Standalone boxes are quiter, more stable, easy interface.
 I use one for my bedroom.  Best $100 I have spent, also has a faster boot
time.
2.  Buy a MCE Remote for your mythtv frontend if you are still continuing to
use it, you can use this remote as mouse in case you need to navigate menus
 I bought mine for $10 on ebay, hack scripts to restart the frontend if it
crashes.


> wife or kids (they only want to use the remote). I listen to music a
> lot, and as many have seen on this list, the music section of Myth
> leaves a lot to be desired. Movies for the kids, just isn't working
> like I want, I want a movie db, not a list of files. I need it as

simple as possible for the kids and wife to just click on the movie
> they want, maybe this is a over site on my behalf, but it seemed to be
> a lot of work to just get it to display just movies.
>
> Next we tried XBMC for our front end, it's great, but it also has it's
> issues...  I have XBMC set to load Myth TV through their native
>

Boxee and XBMC are less stable in linux than the mythfrontend.  I tried it
and it didn't work well.  The osx and windows versions are alittle more
stable.


> settings. Watching TV works, but commercials show. What do i need to
> set in Myth to make the commercials go away, or does that only work
> when using Mythfrontend?
>

transcode with cutlists, you can do a "lossless" mpeg2->mpeg2 and cut out
the commericals.  You can even do this automatically if you are daring.


>
> My next step is going back to Win7 MCE, but I still want to use Myth
> TV. So I'm thinking of moving Mythbackend to a dedicated server in my
> server room, and using it's uPNP abilities to allow MCE to watch TV,

live TV will be done via a Aver"pos"media tuner; that might or might
> not work depending on the day, and how it feels.
>
> 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).
>
> BTW just for reference, I switched to Myth because moving to Win7
> screwed up my Firewire recording, but I can't get that stable in Myth
> either (maybe 1 out of 10 recordings works)
>
> Tuner Hardware:
> HDHR, Avermedia PCIe Combo, FiOS QIP-6200 STB
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