[mythtvnz] Upgrade advice 0.26 or 0.27

[Nick Rout]

On Apr 20, 2014 12:02 PM, "Steve Nicholson" <steve at kiwibum.com> wrote:
>
> On 19/04/14 17:03, Hadley Rich wrote:
>>
>> On 19/04/14 14:46, Steven Ellis wrote:
>>>
>>> How stable is the Ubuntu / Myth combination these days. My 12.04 +
MythTV
>>> 0.26 is horrible and constantly crashing the UI.
>>
>>
>> 12.04 with 0.26 backend has been very stable for me, no longer use the
>> myth frontend, everything is XBMC.
>>
>
> Hads
> Would you mind taking some time and sharing the pros and cons for using
XBMC over myth frontend or why you are using XMBC please?

Pros

Nicer metadata handling of ripped (or downloaded depending on your bent)
movies and TV

Great selection of addons (YouTube, vimeo, various streaming sites, photo
sites). In fact the ability to write addons in python is probably the
greatest strength. Take a look http://addons.xbmc.org/ - and that's only
the official ones.

Runs on more platforms (Win Mac Linux (including on arm) Android iOs). the
raspberry pi port in particular has brought very many people to the media
pc world.

Looks good / great skins

Ability to download subtitles on the fly.

Cons

Not much good for setting up recordings (use mythweb)
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