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Seems to me like innovation in Myth has stalled. 0.22 looks almost like 0.21 and I think it's because of the continuous in-fighting amongst devs there. The Strong devs don't want to hear to any improvements, and I don't think 0.22 will ever become stable.
Is there any will to add time-shift recording capability to XBMC? Or maybe port XBMC as a frontend to Myth?
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XBMC is already a basic frontend to myth. It will be more so once the work in the PVR branch is completed.
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Cool. Where can I learn more about this?
As a frontend does it interface to the database? Honor commercial-skip? How far along is the PVR branch? Are there SVNs?
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There's builtin myth support, no need for that script. Should be info in the wiki, otherwise search the forums.
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2009-05-20, 06:18
(This post was last modified: 2009-05-20, 06:21 by wstewart.)
Just out of curiosity where have you seen "continuous in-fighting amongst devs there"? I have been a long time support of mythtv and still am even though I have decided to jump over to the xbmc camp.
I have never seen evidence of fighting but it will be sometime before mythtv can do some of the things that xbmc can. But on the other hand there are things that it does that xbmc does not
My main reason for leaving was that it was so hard to help out with code development. I've submitted a lot patches that have taken years sometimes to get in. When I look to fix a problem and ask for help/guidance often there is no reply. While it is open source, much of it is "closed" development at the discretion of the particular dev.
It was a hard decision with all the time I have invested in mythtv, but I think I am better off putting my coding efforts to work here instead. Time permitting, I hope to work on a mythtv frontend for the unified pvr branch.
mythbox aims to be more like the actual mythtv frontend in terms of capability. While xbmc has native mythtv support it is not very advanced in comparison to a real mythtv frontend. However, you are better off with the native support, the mythbox script is a work in progress and does not completely work, I have not been able to get it to work completely. The unified PVR branch is a work in progress also so I wouldn't try that yet, besides it doesn't currently have a working mythtv client.
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that is pure bollocks.
1) mythintegration had nothing to do with gsoc - it was all done by our very own elupus. there haven't been much progress on it lately though, reason is that the code needs to be moved to a pvr plugin (see 2) and no reason doing alot of work that needs redoing.
2) the gsoc effort is still ongoing and it's looking very good at the moment. they got sidetracked by adding a general plugin framework, but that is soon settled and they will then focus on pvr again
3) obviously 2) brings with it a better ui for channel changes etc
4) you can't rally devs into doing something they have no interest in doing. you can however contribute
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2009-05-20, 14:45
(This post was last modified: 2009-05-20, 14:47 by Quantumstate.)
Good to know spiff. Sounds like some of it's bollocks.
I would like to contribute, but my chosen field is real estate and as I'm 54 there's no going back. I can however make suggestions, and when one comes up against the sort of attitude over in Myth, it's clear that it's moribund and a lost cause.
I've just been looking over XBMC and it seems there is no 64bit package? I presume I could install the Intrepid packages in Debian Testing, but I'd need 64bit. Maybe I need to compile.
I've always had to compile Myth to add the VDPAU patch, and the patch for my capture device, the R5000-HD which records DishNetwork.
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yes, no 64-bit ppa as xbmc really isn't 64-bit ready yet. no devs use it...
most stuff works, some does not. according to user reports.
i did not mean 4) as directed at you personally as such, more a general comment on the idea of 'lots of users wants this, so surely we can force the devs into wanting it as well' which is basically the idea behind 'rallying the devs'
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OK, I'll try compiling.
The wiki has no table of contents nor index, and searching on 64bit and mythtv gives nothing. So I guess I don't know how to use it.