![]() I honestly hadnt thought about it again, until I tripped across it again looking for a myth replacment. ![]() I had actually breifly checked out MP in late 2004 when I just had a crappy BT878 card and couldnt get it working at the time (and wasnt really looking for a windows based Media Centre so I didnt try to hard). I spent at least a month of fairly constant work trying to get myth to be stable and functional (and quite honestly Wife friendly) before I gave up and went searching again.Įnter MP. ![]() In short, while the feature list was impressive, the hardware acceleration support (required on the XP2000+ I was using) for MPEG decoding is crap (read flaky and unstable), the configuration of myth is convoluted, and for Movie/MP3/Burner etc support, requires the use of many external apps, configurations and utilities, none of which want to work together in a seamless manner. That led to an attempt to set up a proper pc front end for Mythtv - an experience in frustration and compromise to say the least! I am a very experience Unix/linux user/admin and work with it everyday as a part of my job, but found setting the myth front end up to do everything one of the most frustrating experiences Ive had in a long time. Bingo! Timeshifting Recording and Live TV on the xbox! Unfortunately though, while I had purchased a HD capable DVB card, the xbox simply didnt have the clout required to decode the HD MPEG stream. I had Mythtv setup on my linux server (with the tuner and the 'backend' portion) and was using the xbmc python scripts available that allow you to use the xbox as a front end to myth. My search led me initially to MythTV (I live happily in either a Linux or Windows world). Unfortunately, the xbox's un-expandability meant I had to look for an alternative. (My XBOX was a media centre 99% of the time, and was only occasionally used for gaming). Ive been a long time user of Frodos previously excellent work in Xbox MediaCentre and have always been extremely impressed with the functionality and stability of that particular application. ![]() About 6 months ago, I first started getting interested in using a HTPC app for watching TV (specifically for timeshifting and programable recording etc functionality).
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