[mythtv-users] Mything thomething

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/28/2011 04:25 PM, jedi wrote:
> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 01:49:07PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 05/28/2011 01:14 PM, Richard Morton wrote:
>>> I am interested why reusing components in this way isnt the optimum
>>> solution from the mythtv developers point of view.
>>>
>>> I am guessing that the primary reason is that
>>> 1) you're limited by the functionality exposed by the tools that have
>>> been selected (which would make storing the keyframe locations in a
>>> database difficult I would expect)
>>> 2) you're constantly chasing your tail with dependency hell trying to
>>> maintain stable, production quality systems with different
>>> distributions of linux using different versions of the dependant tools
>>> which may well be incompatible.
>>>
>>> I am however generally interested in the pro's and con's from the
>>> developers perspective.
>> That's basically exactly it.  Plus, when you use MPlayer as the video
>> player, you get only the MPlayer OSD, and similar--you lack consistency
>     You also get all of the capabilities of mplayer and all of the developers
> of mplayer. You have a tool that's much more robust because it's not just
> limited to the MythTV community.
>
>     That's a very handy thing. Consistency isn't really that great if your
> movies don't play correctly.
>
>     The more you take on, the more you have to get right.

Again, it's already out there.  http://freevo.sourceforge.net/

If it's that much better of a solution, then by all means, check it out.

Mike