Comments on: New MythTV Interface Preview

By: andrew

andrew — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:24:37 +0000

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Anonymous Feb 4th, 2009 at 8:30 am

it shows:
/export/audio/[sharename...]/ABBA – Gold/
/export/audio/[sharename...]/ABBA – Gold/
/export/audio/[sharename...]/ABBA – Gold/

which is total unsuable (did I mention it is only on some folders; not consistent)

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I had a similar problem. To fix it I used a mp3 tag editor to compare the tag formats on tracks that were usable to the formats of the tracks that were usable. Turns out mythmusic is consistent but my tag formats were not.

By: ZAGA

ZAGA — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:42:03 +0000

These links show the new capabilities of MythUI

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythUI_Demo_Theme

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Theme_Terra

By: Concord

Concord — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:06:31 +0000

Hey, is there a section just for latest news

By: Stackie

Stackie — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:52:56 +0000

Well said, finally a good report on this stuff

By: Cole Dennis

Cole Dennis — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:25:13 +0000

I added this to digg

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:30:54 +0000

In serveral forums has actually recommended not the use the “Automatically play CDs” setting due to errors.

Why can’t you play CD’s just like DVD’s? Insert CD, select menu option: “Play CD” … it isn’t there!

My Music List points at a NSF share, but instead of displaying the folder contents like (mostly, but for some folders it works):
ABBA – Gold/01 Super Trouper
ABBA – Gold/02 Head over heals

it shows:
/export/audio/[sharename...]/ABBA – Gold/
/export/audio/[sharename...]/ABBA – Gold/
/export/audio/[sharename...]/ABBA – Gold/

which is total unsuable (did I mention it is only on some folders; not consistent) as I even can’t see which song is playing due to the way too long path name.

/Claus

By: KeithO

KeithO — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:12:06 +0000

Nice upgrade from 1970 to 1980. But… I didn’t migrate from NTSC to a 1920×1080p projector just to have the user interface take up my entire display. The thinking behind all PVR user interfaces is the reason I loathe MacroShaft Media Center. If someone is sitting in a dark room with popcorn and a cheap IR remote, fine. But…

Where is the ability to detach the UI display from the video display if I want to manage the projector video from a window on my wifi PC, or my iPhone display? Is ANYONE doing anything with next generation detached user interfaces? Am I missing something? HELP!!!

By: therealbrad

therealbrad — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:43:30 +0000

One thing sorely missing from this discussion is the *potential* that the new UI brings. The screen shots here are just an example of what some developers (I don’t think any UI designers have had their hands on this yet) have done to port over the old look of themes to the new UI and include some new functionality.

The UI is completely rewritten in a way that put much more control in the hands of the theme developers. You will see much better themes now that the underlying code supports them. I agree XBMC has a VERY nice UI and I’m hoping someone will take their cue and design a theme for MythTV that is equally nice – now that it’s possible.

By: PaulL

PaulL — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:51:57 +0000

Hmm. Some people on here need to check the options more :-) Although I’ll third the music UI.

1. The music UI can be modified to show all your music in a tree – makes it much more useable
2. Playlist editor is got to by pressing 3 I think (maybe 2, maybe 4). The older themes show the keys down the bottom, the newer ones assume you know them. But it still sucks
3. There is an option to resume playing of videos where you left off

On the music UI, my dream is to have the music tree (as you can get by changing the options), and be able to just surf through it and press enter on any track I want to add to the currently playing list. Whilst it is still playing. So then at a party people could just come along and add things to the playlist. I also want some way to pick the next track without forcing the current track to stop playing – so I can queue up a few tracks without having to edit playlists or the like.

Probably some good user docs wouldn’t go amiss. If I contribute time to myth I tend to contribute testing or coding (although I only have about 3 fixes that I have contributed, I guess that it still something). But for those who don’t test or fix, the user docs are up on one of the wikis, and easy to contribute too.

By: Preview of MythTV 0.22 | MythTV News

Preview of MythTV 0.22 | MythTV News — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:45:13 +0000

[...] of all there has been a story written on MythUI – the new OpenGL based interface which will be the default user interface for MythTV [...]

By: Jens

Jens — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:50:29 +0000

Wow finaly an update, last update was March 08, i used MythTv from the beginning on an old 700 mhz, great for pvr but way to complicated to set up with channel and xml files and i think the music player interface is no good. ive moved to Media portal now, its great too bad its only for windows, but i thinik its the best pvr out there now.

By: web

web — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:45:43 +0000

great i wont have to use xbmc

By: Charlie Gibbs

Charlie Gibbs — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:52:44 +0000

I agree that the music player interface is unusable. Well, nearly so, anyway – I’ve started to get it to work, but it’s still too awkward and counterintuitive. It’s _way_ too much work to find my way to the distant menu entry that indexes MP3s, and although I once found the playlist editor, I haven’t been able to find it since. These functions should be accessible directly from the main music player screen. Also, I’d like to be able to select tracks by file name, not just ID3 tags. Also also, indexing files on a remote machine via NFS fails because the files are read-only – why should MythTV care, if it’s building the index locally?

One thing that does work well is that I can stuff in a disc full of AVI or MPEG files, and it comes up on the screen immediately. I’d love to be able to enter this mode to access files in local or NFS directories too.

I agree with the comments that user interfaces on open source software are generally not up to scratch. My wife can’t use my MythTV box. Microsoft has nothing to fear as long as you need to be a computer geek to make Linux packages work.

By: Frank J

Frank J — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:05:35 +0000

Fix the UI! Nice to see that MythTV is getting a change.

By: Heni

Heni — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:55:15 +0000

@ FluffyPanda

I second that.

By: kenny

kenny — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:02:11 +0000

I have used mythtv first time in march 2008 and it is really useful

By: Nigel Pearson

Nigel Pearson — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:31:18 +0000

“insert and play a CD without setting up playlists”

Errr, what about the “Automatically play CDs” setting? It has been there for years.

By: FluffyPanda

FluffyPanda — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:54:57 +0000

Mikey: Really? Nothing beats Vista’s Media Centre?

You’ve clearly never used XBMC then (http://xbmc.org/). It’s open source and the most attractive (and usable) app I’ve ever come across.

By: Rajesh Duggal

Rajesh Duggal — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:48:40 +0000

I wonder if mythtv can leverage the plex gui code…
http://www.tinkeringwithin.com/2008/07/17/plex-osxbmc-with-aeon-skin-demo/

Cheers,
Rajesh Duggal

By: Dylan

Dylan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:44:53 +0000

I know great designers and engineers, but while they have long hours at paying jobs it will be hard to get them to do additional work.

UI is okay-ish, but some things make no sense:
1. The video list has captions and then text in the icon area that overflows.
2. Needing a video manager import to play existing videos.
3. Needing a playlist to play a CD.
4. Defaulting to icon view.

The ultimate HTPC S/W is Media Portal – if we can make it work like that then we’re home! (That includes resuming watching videos where you left off, and colour-coding watched items.)