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On Apr 20, 2014 12:02 PM, "Steve Nicholson" <<a href="mailto:steve@kiwibum.com">steve@kiwibum.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 19/04/14 17:03, Hadley Rich wrote:<br>
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>> On 19/04/14 14:46, Steven Ellis wrote:<br>
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>>> How stable is the Ubuntu / Myth combination these days. My 12.04 + MythTV<br>
>>> 0.26 is horrible and constantly crashing the UI.<br>
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>> 12.04 with 0.26 backend has been very stable for me, no longer use the<br>
>> myth frontend, everything is XBMC.<br>
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> Hads<br>
> 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?</p>
<p>Pros</p>
<p>Nicer metadata handling of ripped (or downloaded depending on your bent) movies and TV</p>
<p>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 <a href="http://addons.xbmc.org/">http://addons.xbmc.org/</a> - and that's only the official ones.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Looks good / great skins</p>
<p>Ability to download subtitles on the fly.</p>
<p>Cons</p>
<p>Not much good for setting up recordings (use mythweb)<br></p>