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

Mark markhsa at gmail.com
Wed Nov 21 00:26:51 UTC 2012


On 11/20/2012 01:04 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Mark Greenwood <fatgerman at gmail.com 
> <mailto:fatgerman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Tuesday 20 Nov 2012 10:17:10 Mark wrote:
>     > On 2012-11-20 9:43 AM, Mark Greenwood wrote:
>     > > On Tuesday 20 Nov 2012 10:21:56 Michael T. Dean wrote:
>     > >> On 11/20/2012 02:05 AM, Phill Edwards wrote:
>     > >>>> 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.
>     > >>>>
>     > >>> I love mythfrontend and I find it very disappointing that
>     people want
>     > >>> to get rid of it as I don't think whatever replaces it will
>     be as good
>     > >>> for TV recording playback. Sure XBMC looks good but I think
>     features
>     > >>> come first.
>     > >>>
>     > >> And, FWIW, mythfrontend can look /very/ good, too--just
>     requires some
>     > >> people to actually help with theming it (rather than just
>     saying that
>     > >> XBMC is better and recommending we drop mythfrontend)...
>     > >>
>     > > Yes, the MythMediaStream theme looks really good, but it does
>     use up a shedload of RAM. IMO all the XBMC themes look great,
>     they're easy to navigate, and seem to use far less memory - which
>     is significant for many who run a frontend on a small PC.
>     > >
>     > > But it's not al about eye candy. I've been experimenting with
>     XMBC as a frontend and the setup is SO much simpler - I haven't
>     had to faff with sysctl.conf, udev rules, (for RTC timing) or even
>     the dreaded LIRC. It all just worked (apart from the usual type of
>     faffing with  xorg.conf). And A/V sync is spot on with all
>     sources, including TV - which it wasn't with mythtv 0.26.
>     > >
>     > > I'm sure mythfrontend is extremely capable (I know it is, I
>     went to the trouble of setting it up) but using XBMC gives me more
>     beer time. I think that perhaps when people say 'XBMC is better'
>     they might mean 'I managed to get XBMC to work so I'm using it
>     because I gave up on mythfrontend after 3 days'.
>     > >
>     > > Mark
>     > > _______________________________________________
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>     > Pardon the slightly off topic.
>     > There is no xbmc plugin for mythtv 26 is there?
>     > I would like to look at it if so.
>
>     No but there is a mythtv plugin for xbmc, which I think is what
>     you want. It allows you to use xmbc as a frontend for your mythtv
>     backend. It is, however, experimental and currently only works
>     with the development version of xbmc and the add-on itself has to
>     be built from source. It's all on the xbmc downloads page if
>     you're interested. It's what I'm now using as my main frontend.
>
>
> There are several routes to mythtv in XBMC, including:
>
> The PVR plugin I think you are referring to, build instructions here 
> http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=PVR/Backend/MythTV/BuildFromSource. 
> Seems to work with 0.25 backend, but needs XBMC 12 (currently beta) 
> and to compile the plugin. As the instructions show, this is not hard.
>
> Mythbox, works against 0.25 if you have XBMC 12 (I think) and get the 
> plugin's forked version from here: https://github.com/mitchcapper/mythbox
>
> The myth:// protocol built in to XBMC - no plugin needed, but it is 
> pretty basic. You specify a url like myth://user:password@backend and 
> that's all you need to do.
>
> There are probably others too - some historical (ie no longer work).
>
>
>     Mark
>
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Are there any that work with 26?
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