[mythtv-users] [svlug] xbmc vs mythtv-frontend

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

On Monday, 12 March 2012, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's fair that mythfrontend is a few years behind XBMC as a user
> interface, and it's local and streaming media playback. It seems like
> most of the developer work goes into the backend, I actually prefer
> this, since there is XBMC for everything else if you feel you have to
> use it. Let the XBMC dev's create a really nice GUI for this sort of
> thing, and the MythTV developers create a ridiculously powerful
> backend for recording tv.

I actually disagree that myth is a few years behind XBMC.

Sure, XBMC has a much more fancy UI.. But capabilities-wise, mythtv can do
more and myth has often be the first to introduce new technologies: VDPAU
playback, DTS-HD & TrueHD digital bit streaming you name it.
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