Re: [Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over?

2011-12-07 Thread Bill Cattey
We have a DLNA server at home that talks to our BluRay player. Sadly the first DLNA server we tried was not seen by the BluRay player. The second one is seen but won't see new content unless we rebuild the Db from scratch. Our setup is a little strange in that the DLNA server is running on a

Re: [Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over?

2011-12-07 Thread Derek Atkins
Hey, Bill, Bill Cattey w...@mit.edu writes: We have a DLNA server at home that talks to our BluRay player. Sadly the first DLNA server we tried was not seen by the BluRay player. The second one is seen but won't see new content unless we rebuild the Db from scratch. Our setup is a little

Re: [Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over?

2011-12-07 Thread Rich Braun
I wrote: MythTV doesn't directly support PVR archival through its UI David Kramer da...@thekramers.net argues: Sure it does! It even has an archive export that throws the metadata in XML files, so when you want to import them again you don't lose anything. I've done this. Hmm, I wonder if

Re: [Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over?

2011-12-07 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 10:38:04AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: Hey, Bill, Bill Cattey w...@mit.edu writes: We have a DLNA server at home that talks to our BluRay player. Sadly the first DLNA server we tried was not seen by the BluRay player. The second one is seen but won't see new

Re: [Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over?

2011-12-06 Thread Greg Sidelinger
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Gregory Boyce gbo...@badbelly.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Derek Martin inva...@pizzashack.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 01:59:04PM -0500, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote: On 12/5/2011 11:08 AM, Derek Martin wrote: On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at

Re: [Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over?

2011-12-06 Thread David Miller
Since no one else mentioned this option I'll mention Boxee. It's basically a polished fork of XBMC. So no PVR functionality but it's other functionality is pretty slick. They do have something for watching live over the air HD in the works. I don't know if that will ever morph into PVR

Re: [Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over?

2011-12-05 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 09:40:50PM -0500, Rich Braun wrote: What direction should I take now that I've really finally had *enough* of MythTV? TiVo. It just bloody works, and very well at that, and I can say without reservation I've been a happy TiVo user for about 10 years or so. Yeah, you

Re: [Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over?

2011-12-05 Thread Kyle Leslie
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.orgwrote: Tivo plus xbmc does it for me. I encoded all my DVDs to MKV due to space reasons. Oh, and Netflix on the tivo. All I need now is an easy way to play Amazon Prime. ^^ There are ways to put Netflix on XBMC as well.

Re: [Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over?

2011-12-05 Thread Kyle Leslie
Yes, this is true. Forgot that linux doesn't have silverlight. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Ben Eisenbraun b...@klatsch.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 02:09:09PM -0500, Kyle Leslie wrote: ^^ There are ways to put Netflix on XBMC as well. (XBMC Flicks)

Re: [Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over?

2011-12-05 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
On 12/5/2011 2:51 PM, Derek Martin wrote: Sure it will. You can use TiVo Desktop to copy the backups back to TiVo. They do need to be in a supported format, so you may need to transcode them, and yes you do need to copy them, but it can be done. I think the original poster mentioned .ISO

Re: [Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over?

2011-12-05 Thread Rich Braun
Thanks for all the comments! One direction I've thought of going is DLNA front-end hardware to replace my somewhat-old Acer Revo front-ends. Now that those can be had in the $100 price range (and the functionality is increasingly getting built into TVs and BluRay players), it's only a matter of

Re: [Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over?

2011-12-05 Thread David Kramer
On 12/05/2011 09:06 PM, Rich Braun wrote: sometimes other things). MythTV doesn't directly support PVR archival through its UI, but at least it's easy enough to 'mv' the files from its temp storage into a separate archival volume where it can be played through any other software. Sure it

[Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over?

2011-12-04 Thread Rich Braun
I've almost gotten to the point of ripping out MythTV. The project is falling over under its own weight (millions of lines of code abruptly added the past couple of years), the last major version is riddled with bugs, and developers seem unconcerned about the user community's desire for

Re: [Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over?

2011-12-04 Thread David Kramer
On 12/04/2011 09:40 PM, Rich Braun wrote: I've almost gotten to the point of ripping out MythTV. The project is falling over under its own weight (millions of lines of code abruptly added the past couple of years), the last major version is riddled with bugs, and developers seem unconcerned