MythTV front-end client built-into to XBMC

I don't think that will ever happen.

MythTV backend with DVB-S2 and XBMC Frontend is a more realistic solution. Of course, this will also replace your Xbox and DVB-S tuner given that the backend and frontend will work in the same machine.

But I'm talking about this option [XBMC everything + MythTV DVB-S backend]
XBMC frontend is the best and with DVB-S2 capabilities it would be double the best

Hm, I personally would like to see an integration of VDR instead of MythTV - the recording and live tv functions are just so much better and very stable.

Well, I don't care which soft will do the dirt job, as long as it supports at least one DVB-S2 card and PMCAM (Poor Man's CAM). PMCAM is really a must have because it can be integrated with Phoenix card reader ( 10 times cheper than normal CAM module cost ). PMCAM is open source btw. (http://joshyfun.peque.org/PMCAM2/index.html)

Quote:Hm, I personally would like to see an integration of VDR instead of MythTV - the recording and live tv functions are just so much better and very stable.

Jep. I think VDR would do a wonderful job. As MythTV already has a full Backend/Frontend System i would like to see a way of using Network VDR Servers natively from within XBMC.

@devs .. any plans on this?

Just did a quick search and couldnt come up with much recent info but anyone know the benefits of using vdr over mythtv?

My experiences with MythTV are pretty old, last time I tried it was sometime last year. In my eyes VDR has always had it's advantages in the usage department, it never looked as good as a mythtv since it was optimised for TV resolutions and tv-outs of DVB cards and mythtv was made for VGA resolutions. But it was always alot faster and imo more stable when it comes to watching TV. The feeling was always alot like a real hardware receiver, there are no big delays when zapping channels and timeshift/recording works instantly without any delays. I never got that feeling with mythtv. The other advantage of MythTV is the client/server architecture, that is something VDR has always only solved with plugins (streamdev-plugin) and mythtv always had that as a basic feature, that should make it easier to integrate it in XBMC I would suppose - but probably with the disadvantages of slower seek times and a more sluggish feeling than a VDR. Idealy, both would exist

Why do we need anything beyond the xbmcmythtv script? Which I use and love on my hardware xbox, however can't get it to run yet on linux XBMC.

MattPF Wrote:Why do we need anything beyond the xbmcmythtv script? Which I use and love on my hardware xbox, however can't get it to run yet on linux XBMC.

I think the point is to some day have this:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=28918
Support for many Backend, let the user choose.
Gmyth is most probably just the begining, as it's "easy" and it's used and is linux specific. It let's users get the feeling of backend/frontend possibilities..
I hope gamesters vision will come true!

Instead of making XBMC-Linux work with myth tv and have a 2gb install minimum.
Why not take the part you really want, the pvr functionality and make it work with
xbmc-linux.

Freevo is a python based pvr software. Couldn't we just control freevo via command? then we can use xbmc -linux to render the gui and control the pvr software. We could trim down the size of freevo if we can strip out just the pvr part.

note: freevo uses mplayer right?