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On 12/04/2011 09:40 PM, Rich Braun wrote: > 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. Wow. That's... impressive. And representative of what I see on the mailing list frequently. I can understand how the change in architecture could prevent a warning dialog "are you sure?" dialog box, but surely the back end can return a status code, so it could check whether the recordings are there and refuse to run if not, reporting the condition to the front end. > 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. "Doesn't need to do a whole lot more than that" is a whole lot. I don't know of anything else that has MythTV's PVR functionality, which is what it was really designed for. If I were you I would consider completely different solutions for PVR and DVD if you're unhappy with the way MythTV deals with that.
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