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

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Sat Nov 24 03:21:41 UTC 2012


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:21:56AM -0500, 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)...

    It's not the eye candy and the theming that makes XBMC look better
than pretty much everything (including MythTV). It's the metadata management.

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