Hi all,
I had been using Freevo for almost 4 years until about 4 months ago - I got a
720p TV, and as my Freevo box wasn't powerful enough to decode 720p, I bought
myself a cheap little (Argosy) media box. Needless to say, losing the ability
to customise things has got more and more annoying over the last 4 months, and
I'm now so frustrated with it, and so underwhelmed by 720p, that I'm giving up
on it. My freevo box is still in only a few pieces (4 months is a long time
to
go without opening up an unused piece of hardware), so won't take me long to
throw it back together, and I was thinking of just wiping the HD, and
installing OS and freevo from scratch.
Obviously, as I'm doing that, I have the opportunity to choose a different OS
and different media player, and I've been looking at XBMC and Boxee. From
what
I've seen XBMC is the better choice from a OSS perspective, and seems to be
very customisable. The question is, why choose Freevo over XBMC? I know
under
normal circumstances a question like this to an OSS mailing list will end up
in
an endless stream of flames, and in those situations I would normally
sirupticiously defect without anyone knowing or caring. However, I've found
the Freevo lists to be very friendly and fair over the years, so I thought I
would throw it out to an open conversation to see what happened.
>From a usage perspective, I don't record TV at all, New Zealand TV is pretty
rubbish (unless you like 24/7 rugby and "Australia's next top singing
sheepdog"
shows), and forces me to have to download UK and USA TV programmes from the
usual sources. Thus, all my content comes from SMB shares, with the odd net
radio station. One very handy feature I've seen for XBMC is a "latest
download
episodes" script/plugin, which would save a great number of arguments between
my better half and I.
Anyway, let me know what you all think, but be gentle... :)
Cheers
DJM23
P.S. In case it matters, I would describe my python skills as George W Bush
Jnr, i.e. clueless, but my linux, windows and perl/php skills are pretty good;
and it hasn't stopped me from being able to hack freevo to do whatever I want.
Nothing is true; Everything is permissible...
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