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I've almost gotten to the point of ripping out MythTV. The project is falling over under its own weight (millions of lines of code abruptly added the past couple of years), the last major version is riddled with bugs, and developers seem unconcerned about the user community's desire for releases/bug fixes more often than once every couple of years. What's got me ticked off tonight is a bug summed up at this URL: http://answerpot.com/showthread.php?2677877-Ticket+%239834%3A+Mythvideo+scan+lost+all+metadata If you're on a frontend box which fails to properly mount the backend's video volumes, you get no warning upon "scan for changes". The net effect is to truncate all video data, forcing you to revert to a MySQL database backup (presuming you have one). Fortunately my backups are frequent, but the developer's response in closing this bug report as "not a bug" belongs back in the 1980s. What direction should I take now that I've really finally had *enough* of MythTV? I want to reformat the hard drives of all my frontends and start over fresh. The goal is to be able to scroll through a couple thousand DVD ISO images, with meta data/cover art, and from the same user interface have a reasonably easy to use PVR system that records/plays back Boston's over-the-air channels. Doesn't need to do a whole lot more than that. -rich
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