> I know this is like pissing in church, and I try to avoid Microsoft as > much > as possible, but: > > Has anyone run MCE, and can they give a breif comparison as to what it and > MythTV will do? > > Also, how is live TV quality in MythTV compared to, say TVtime, which > seems > to have far better picture quality than, say XawTV. How flexible is MythTV > about using alternative backend programs?? > > Cheers > > Marius > Registered Linux user
A friend of mine uses MCE and has tried to get me to switch over. I tried it for a little while but came back to MythTV. Some of the reasons why: MCE has very limited recording schedule options. For instance, there's no "Record one showing per week", which I use with MythTV. MCE doesn't support an analogue card alongside a digital card. I use a PVR-250MCE and a DVB-T card with MythTV. The PVR card captures on s-video from a cable box, using a serial IR transmitter for channel changing, and the DVB-T captures over-the-air digital transmissions. MCE cannot do this. I don't like the MCE interface, but thats just my personal taste. And with MythTV I can choose a different theme if I don't like the default one. As far as I know, there's no web interface that comes with MCE. Mythweb is very useful for me. MCE isn't a bad product, but it just doesn't offer me anything over MythTV. Plus, MythTV is free, whereas MCE is not. As for TV quality, I've never used TVTime so I don't know. But the quality is very good, especially with DVB. I had quality issues with the composite input on the PVR250MCE card, but I switched to the S-video input and its all good now. Hope this helps. Nick _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
