[mythtv-users] What major features are planned for 0.27?

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 07:19:58 UTC 2012


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Michael Watson <
michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au> wrote:

> On 20/11/2012 10:12 AM, Nick Rout wrote:
>
>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca<mailto:
>> brian at interlinx.bc.ca>**> wrote:
>>
>>     On 12-11-19 05:12 PM, Neil Salstrom wrote:
>>     >
>>     > I'd just like rock solid DVD playback
>>
>>     What's a DVD?  :-)
>>
>>     > (both physical disk and .iso).
>>     > I have so many that skip around in the menus or simply crash back to
>>     > the front end before anything happens.
>>
>>     But yeah.
>>
>>     > All the disks I've tried play
>>     > back flawlessly in all other players (VLC, xine, Totem, XBMC,
>>     etc) but
>>     > only have problems with MythTV.
>>
>>     Surely something's got to be learnable from those other projects.
>>
>>     Or instead... I keep hearing about XBMC (I have looked briefly but
>>     given
>>     that playback from MythBE is my primary goal, by a long, long
>>     shot, not
>>     really suitable).
>>
>>     I have to ask whether it's time for the folks interested in coding the
>>     frontend bits to give up on the Myth frontend as it's own stand-alone
>>     app (along with all of it's failing bits) and instead take the
>>     working-really-well bits and provide XBMC with first class Myth
>>     playback
>>     capabilities.
>>
>>
>> People are reporting good results again from XBMC 12 beta and various
>> myth plugins.
>>
>> If your backend is 0.24 then XBMC 11 works fine with the Mythbox frontend
>> addon. You get scheduling, commskip but not speedup (ie watch at 1.3x).
>>
>> The standard mythbox does not work with 0.25 backend, but there is a fork
>> that does - https://github.com/**mitchcapper/mythbox<https://github.com/mitchcapper/mythbox>- but I think it needs XBMC 12 (still in beta)
>>
>> Also XBMC has now merged it's PVR branch, but i am yet to see this
>> working with mythtv (although have seen reports that it does)
>>
> Follow these instructions to build the MythTV-PVR Plugin for XBMC. It
> works, but I find it a bit slow.
>
> http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.**php?title=PVR/Backend/MythTV/**
> BuildFromSource<http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=PVR/Backend/MythTV/BuildFromSource>
>
>
Well that worked, thanks!
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