[mythtvnz] MythTV upgrade, bleeding code, ready for tester

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> One of the general things you will find about mythtv devs is that they
>> don't care much for livetv "thats not how its designed to be used, record
>> what you want to watch and watch it when you have the time, its a new
>> paradigm, change your life forever blah blah blah."
>>
>
> It's not that the devs don't care about it, it's just that they don't use
> it. So they don't see the issues that some people seem to have and don't fix
> them. If the issues were consistent I'm sure that they'd get attention, but
> them seem to only affect certain setups and don't seem to be that easy to
> diagnose.
>
> Ultimately the nature of open source is this: if you want it fixed you
> either have to fix it yourself or find someone who already cares about it
> and can fix it. You'll struggle to convince anyone that a feature they don't
> use is important enough to them to put much effort in.
>
> The other point I'd make is that if you don't care about the "new
> paradigm", if Live TV is your main thing, then you're probably better off
> with a MySky box or another good PVR. Live TV is simply not one of MythTVs
> strengths. If you must have MythTV then it'll annoy you less if you make a
> conscious effort to adopt the paradigm and forget about LiveTV and to
> convince the other users in your household to do the same. There are good
> advantages to recording, even if you watch while it's recording: commercial
> skipping and time stretch are the obvious biggies.
>

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