On 5/8/07, John Molohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > come se fosse antani wrote: > > On 5/8/07, John Molohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> come se fosse antani wrote: > >> > >>> On 5/7/07, Michel Hoogervorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> Mythmusic was the part of Myth wich drove me away from Myth to Freevo a > >>>> few > >>>> years ago. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> thanks for the answer. > >>> > >>> yeeep. you're right. in fact the tv and recording framework is the > >>> part of freevo wich drove me away from freevo to (high cpu intensive) > >>> mythtv. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> I can say that the TV section of freevo has been massively improved from > >> 1.5 to 1.7. > >> > > > > Cool. I don't want in any way to start a flame (in fact I was a freevo > > fan and the major points that caused the switch are below). > > I've to say that the (as for me) major advantages for myth are > > - is really easy to configure the recording part (for freevo it was > > needed to create a custom mencoder command that was a pain to "find" > > in the best way) > > - livetv with timeshifting > > - recording schedule and options variety: _huge_ :) > > > If you have an ivtv based card freevo will do livetv with timeshifting. > It'll also easily support multi tuners for recording or watching. I'm > not sure about other cards, I think dvb is just as good but analogue > might still be limited. I haven't got a mythtv install so I can't really > compare the recording schedule options.
I've a saa7134 analog card (with them I did the first try with freevo and now I added a dvb-t usb dongle. In the future I'm going to completely replace the analog input with two dvb adapter, I think. > > a reader of my blog (in italian, I wrote a comparison between freevo > > and myth, orangeek dot org) pointed me to the new 2.0 but is still in > > develop (dischi, we're waiting for you! :) that seems to have huge > > improvements. I'm waiting to try it out... I've no test machine and I > > don't want to messy my htpc. > > > > > > > >> Yeah freevo will read folder.jpg or cover.jpg and display that as the > >> album artwork. There's also the amazon plugin which will fetch covers > >> for you as long as you have the album info in the tags. > >> > > yep, I remember at the amazon plugin! But didnt it need an amazon account? > > > Yeah but it only takes about three minutes to set up then you can forget > about it. mmmh, I did not remember that! thanks! antani ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
