[mythtv-users] Mything thomething

[jedi]

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 09:04:07PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> 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.

    You say that like MythTV itself wasn't designed for this.

    That's where this friction comes from. Legacy users are using MythTV
as it was designed to be used and it was documented to be used when they
first started using it.

    Plus there's the whole "but it can't play my mundane videos".

    Being an Apple wannabe is fine if you really have the chops for it.