Re: [Freevo-users] LinuxMCE - anyone tried this?
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 10:47 -0500, Evan Hisey wrote: Last time looked LinuxMCE was based on MythTV. That particular setup in the video was using some really oddball but cool hardware using the x10 protocol stuff for home automation. Nice piece of advertising and Linux propaganda though. I tried to create 2 separate instances/times of the install and both times, it ended up bad, either something went missing during the install or it was't working in the end. (I had the same luck coincidentally with Pluto too) So.. Bad experience thus far and results certainly doesn't come out much like the AVI file from the site. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] LinuxMCE - anyone tried this?
Last time looked LinuxMCE was based on MythTV. That particular setup in the video was using some really oddball but cool hardware using the x10 protocol stuff for home automation. Nice piece of advertising and Linux propaganda though. Evan On 3/22/07, John Molohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Tackaberry wrote: John Molohan wrote: Just came across this. Seems to be based on Pluto home. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4422887272477313460 I especially enjoyed the 5 minutes of black screen at the end of the video. Yeah not sure what's going on there? There are some interesting ideas there, some stuff we can steal for sure. I disagree with a lot of the UI choices, and a lot of the video felt like propaganda. The idea of the remote sounds cool, but in practice I find it dubious. We all know that soft buttons are like, and LinuxMCE's UI takes that even one step further. The voice over is certainly painful to listen to but I've been meaning to try plutohome for a while so I'll probably give it (and Ubuntu) a go. But overall it looks pretty cool Not bad alright. and definitely worthy of some inspiration. Exactly :) - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] LinuxMCE - anyone tried this?
Just came across this. Seems to be based on Pluto home. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4422887272477313460 http://linuxmce.com/ - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] LinuxMCE - anyone tried this?
John Molohan wrote: Just came across this. Seems to be based on Pluto home. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4422887272477313460 I especially enjoyed the 5 minutes of black screen at the end of the video. There are some interesting ideas there, some stuff we can steal for sure. I disagree with a lot of the UI choices, and a lot of the video felt like propaganda. The idea of the remote sounds cool, but in practice I find it dubious. We all know that soft buttons are like, and LinuxMCE's UI takes that even one step further. But overall it looks pretty cool and definitely worthy of some inspiration. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] LinuxMCE - anyone tried this?
Jason Tackaberry wrote: John Molohan wrote: Just came across this. Seems to be based on Pluto home. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4422887272477313460 I especially enjoyed the 5 minutes of black screen at the end of the video. Yeah not sure what's going on there? There are some interesting ideas there, some stuff we can steal for sure. I disagree with a lot of the UI choices, and a lot of the video felt like propaganda. The idea of the remote sounds cool, but in practice I find it dubious. We all know that soft buttons are like, and LinuxMCE's UI takes that even one step further. The voice over is certainly painful to listen to but I've been meaning to try plutohome for a while so I'll probably give it (and Ubuntu) a go. But overall it looks pretty cool Not bad alright. and definitely worthy of some inspiration. Exactly :) - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
