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XBMC MythTV frontend "Mythbox" RC1 was released yesterday. It honors commercial skipping. This project is coming along nicely.

http://code.google.com/p/mythbox/

I installed it. I had to setup NFS from my frontend to the backend recordings directory and add my backend host name to /etc/hosts on the frontend. Other than that it is a pretty simple install. If you like XBMC give it a try.

Rock on, PLA

Man, I'm really torn about this.

For the past several years, I've always wanted better mythtv functionality with xbmc. But now, I see that mythtv has improved tremendously and with the addition of arclight and the mythbuntu theme, I had all but left the idea of using xbmc as the front end.

Still, I'm going to DL it and hopefully vdpau is easy to set up with XBMC.

Thanks for the info. I had no idea about this development till your post.

marc wrote:Man, I'm really torn about this.

For the past several years, I've always wanted better mythtv functionality with xbmc. But now, I see that mythtv has improved tremendously and with the addition of arclight and the mythbuntu theme, I had all but left the idea of using xbmc as the front end.

Still, I'm going to DL it and hopefully vdpau is easy to set up with XBMC.

Thanks for the info. I had no idea about this development till your post.

You're welcome. It is nice to have choices. I'm still evaluating XBMC Mythbox. I don't think it is there yet, but it is progressing. Let me know what you think.

Rock on, PLA

Here is my video demo of XBMC Mythbox.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5E8KPalqPg

The Mythbox is pretty close to a MythTV frontend. Let me know what you think.

Rock on, PLA