<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Mark Greenwood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fatgerman@gmail.com" target="_blank">fatgerman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Tuesday 20 Nov 2012 10:17:10 Mark wrote:<br>
> On 2012-11-20 9:43 AM, Mark Greenwood wrote:<br>
> > On Tuesday 20 Nov 2012 10:21:56 Michael T. Dean wrote:<br>
> >> On 11/20/2012 02:05 AM, Phill Edwards wrote:<br>
> >>>> I have to ask whether it's time for the folks interested in coding the<br>
> >>>> frontend bits to give up on the Myth frontend as it's own stand-alone<br>
> >>>> app (along with all of it's failing bits) and instead take the<br>
> >>>> working-really-well bits and provide XBMC with first class Myth playback<br>
> >>>> capabilities.<br>
> >>>><br>
> >>> I love mythfrontend and I find it very disappointing that people want<br>
> >>> to get rid of it as I don't think whatever replaces it will be as good<br>
> >>> for TV recording playback. Sure XBMC looks good but I think features<br>
> >>> come first.<br>
> >>><br>
> >> And, FWIW, mythfrontend can look /very/ good, too--just requires some<br>
> >> people to actually help with theming it (rather than just saying that<br>
> >> XBMC is better and recommending we drop mythfrontend)...<br>
> >><br>
> > 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.<br>
> ><br>
> > 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.<br>
> ><br>
> > 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'.<br>
> ><br>
> > Mark<br>
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> Pardon the slightly off topic.<br>
> There is no xbmc plugin for mythtv 26 is there?<br>
> I would like to look at it if so.<br>
<br>
</div></div>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.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>There are several routes to mythtv in XBMC, including:<br><br>The PVR plugin I think you are referring to, build instructions here <a href="http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=PVR/Backend/MythTV/BuildFromSource">http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=PVR/Backend/MythTV/BuildFromSource</a>. 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.<br>
<br>Mythbox, works against 0.25 if you have XBMC 12 (I think) and get the plugin's forked version from here: <a href="https://github.com/mitchcapper/mythbox">https://github.com/mitchcapper/mythbox</a><br><br>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.<br>
<br>There are probably others too - some historical (ie no longer work).<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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