ben i want to second your comments about sagetv just not looking good as a ui. i am a media center user (server/extender model) and i have tried sage a number of times and even with the best themes for sage it just doesnt look as good/smooth as media center.
i really hope they redo the whole ui for the next major sage release because it really needs it. sage did get a number of things right (and do them better than media center.... a good extender, embedded commercial skip, the guide stuff) but i just cant get past that interface. and its even worse for me because of all things sage runs well on a windows home server (when media center does not) and i really want to start building a home server based on a proper server os.
its going to be interesting to see who wins... sage with a decent ui or ms actually having their products work well together and bringing media center to whs.
I feel the pain of UI's. I am a current MythTV user. The system was a challenge to configure and setup but now its rock solid. No viruses no need to reboot or restart services etc. Myth is so flexible i learn new things all the time.
But just like Sage Myth lacks a "pretty" interface. Alot of it is due to not everyone having video cards+drivers that can handle the OpenGL. There have been attempts to make it pretty such as Gloss Frontend but it is still very beta.
I have thought about moving to MCE because of the graphics. But every time i learn more about the limitations I get more and more turned off. Other than the graphics the only other benefit of MCE is Cable Card. But i refuse to buy a whole new computer to get CC. (what other benefits are there? am i missing something?)
While MCE has its pluses i love that fact that Myth has commercial skip, Xvid export, DVD import, DVD export, channel renumbering, unlimited tuner restrictions, tuner priorities, server/client model, a Linux OS (Stable), constant new features, timestrech, re-encoding (is there anymore?) all built right in. Where MCE, AFAIK, you have to add all these third party plug ins.
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aaron @ Jul 10th 2008 10:35AM
ben i want to second your comments about sagetv just not looking good as a ui. i am a media center user (server/extender model) and i have tried sage a number of times and even with the best themes for sage it just doesnt look as good/smooth as media center.
i really hope they redo the whole ui for the next major sage release because it really needs it. sage did get a number of things right (and do them better than media center.... a good extender, embedded commercial skip, the guide stuff) but i just cant get past that interface. and its even worse for me because of all things sage runs well on a windows home server (when media center does not) and i really want to start building a home server based on a proper server os.
its going to be interesting to see who wins... sage with a decent ui or ms actually having their products work well together and bringing media center to whs.
Mitchell @ Jul 11th 2008 11:43AM
I feel the pain of UI's. I am a current MythTV user. The system was a challenge to configure and setup but now its rock solid. No viruses no need to reboot or restart services etc. Myth is so flexible i learn new things all the time.
But just like Sage Myth lacks a "pretty" interface. Alot of it is due to not everyone having video cards+drivers that can handle the OpenGL. There have been attempts to make it pretty such as Gloss Frontend but it is still very beta.
I have thought about moving to MCE because of the graphics. But every time i learn more about the limitations I get more and more turned off. Other than the graphics the only other benefit of MCE is Cable Card. But i refuse to buy a whole new computer to get CC. (what other benefits are there? am i missing something?)
While MCE has its pluses i love that fact that Myth has commercial skip, Xvid export, DVD import, DVD export, channel renumbering, unlimited tuner restrictions, tuner priorities, server/client model, a Linux OS (Stable), constant new features, timestrech, re-encoding (is there anymore?) all built right in. Where MCE, AFAIK, you have to add all these third party plug ins.
Mitchell