I tried out myth once, and my experiences were as follows. - Myth's implementation of LIRC is total Scottish pants, using irxevent instead of lirc proper. OK, I pressed the button, nothing happened, waited a few seconds, pressed it again, FCS IT DID IT TWICE!!
- The Myth interface is confusing, "Do I press right to go to the next one in the lower right or do I press down?" - The inbuilt configuration interface was impressive in some ways. However mysql is a beast and not really suitable for a set top box running on a 400Mhz arm chip. So freevo is definitely the way to go for the STB. - Myth has tv timeshifting, and picture in picture, we should be getting to this fairly soon in freevo thanks to the great work the developers are doing. - Freevo lacks and inbuilt configuration interface, however it shouldn't be too difficult to write one, and that is something I'd like to spend time on as soon as I've learned python (which I keep putting off) - Freevo could do with an on screen arrow key keyboard for renaming files and searching tv guides. I don't even think myth does that, but its something that would be cool. - Myth is built on QT and is compiled from source, even though its a binary application it still feels much slower than python/freevo, especially on remote control. - Requirements for myth include QT and many more libraries than freevo, QT is fairly large and if you're looking to put it on a small <2Gb hard drive you'd have little space left over for movies/music/pictures etc... - The themes are gayer than Brighton/San Fransisco. - Myth sucks - Freevo rocks - Vive la freevo wh00p! On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 11:49 +0200, Geert Decorte wrote: > I have both working. But didn't much play around with Mytthv for now. > > Depending the default user I choose during startup either freevo or mythtv > launches. > > A few differences > > - Freevo's screen layout looks better to me, specific since I'm using the > mediaportal theme you'll find in the links page of the WIKI. > (I don't like the themes supported in Mythtv...) > > - Mythtv looks more feature complete. You should expect some of these > features to appear in a next release of freevo (picture in picture...) > > - Freevo is better documented. Mythtv uses a mysql database to register > settings. If you're not have a excelent knowledge of mysql, you need to > jump trough hoops to make it work decent. Specific for countries which > aren't supported by standard install (xmltv). > - Both are mainly using the same tools > > > So mainly, my personal opinion: Freevo has a better layout, looks better > and has better documentation. Surely somebody else will not agree. > But this is a personal opinion without flaming. > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I just installed Freevo before 2 days and it was fun, but since I have > > more than one option (Thanks to the open source community) I was > > thinking about MythTV, (I don't want to start a war here , PLEASE) > > > > my question is there any Article or a table that compare Freevo and MythTV > > ? > > > > > > -- > > Best Regards, > > -------------------- > > -*- If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem -*- > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle > > Practices > > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > > _______________________________________________ > > Freevo-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > > > > > > > > -- > > This message has been scanned for viruses and > > dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is > > believed to be clean. > > > > > > > http://gedeco.no-ip.org > > > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
