[mythtvnz] XBMC as a mythtv front end.

[Curtis Walker]

On 23 November 2013 09:09, Jason Taylor <killerkiwi2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Nightly builds has 0.27 support, there are working on having binary plug ins being upgradeable between releases
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> On 22 November 2013 23:57, David Tildesley <davotnz at yahoo.co.nz> wrote:
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>> Appears to do a good job. Supports up to  v 0.26
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>> At last - now I can play recordings on my windows desktop. Tried VMWare player running Ubuntu guest with mythtv frontend but gave up trying to get the sound to work.
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>> Tip- don't change the "port" setting in the xbmc mythtv plugin config - it is not referring to the database port.
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>> David.
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The libcmyth plugin works with 0.27. That said, I still prefer
mythfrontend for TV, videos and recordings. Sure XBMC looks nicer and
has smooth transitions etc, but it feels less efficient as a PVR
frontend to me, and in my experience is less responsive menu wise. I
guess I jsut prefer the focussed cleanliness of mythfrontend, but to
each their own.