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<blockquote data-quote="cdouglas" data-source="post: 84276" data-attributes="member: 24722"><p>1. What did you have to do before you got MP up & running ?</p><p></p><p>Getting the base system working wasn't that difficult, even the first time except for the EPG. Its all the extra stuff to get it the way you want it to work with your hardware is what is time consuming and I am not sure any of that can be helped.</p><p></p><p>Example of extra stuff: Getting MOV files to work (not MP fault), figuring out the My Programs plugin for use with MAME (not hard after I found the wiki page) , getting my Firefly RF remote to work. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Now that I have installed it for several friends as well, I am doing complete installs/configs in less than 30 mins. </p><p></p><p>2. What could be improved to make install & configuration easier ?</p><p></p><p>I agree that a wizard might help newbies some to go through each media type. </p><p>The EPG setup was very difficult. Since I opted to use BTV over My TV after trying it, I can't even say how to improve the EPG setup now, but something needs to be done. With BTV, there is no setup beyond entering your area code and selecting your provider. I did get it to work with the zap2it plugin, but the guide still wasnt as good as btv.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cdouglas, post: 84276, member: 24722"] 1. What did you have to do before you got MP up & running ? Getting the base system working wasn't that difficult, even the first time except for the EPG. Its all the extra stuff to get it the way you want it to work with your hardware is what is time consuming and I am not sure any of that can be helped. Example of extra stuff: Getting MOV files to work (not MP fault), figuring out the My Programs plugin for use with MAME (not hard after I found the wiki page) , getting my Firefly RF remote to work. Now that I have installed it for several friends as well, I am doing complete installs/configs in less than 30 mins. 2. What could be improved to make install & configuration easier ? I agree that a wizard might help newbies some to go through each media type. The EPG setup was very difficult. Since I opted to use BTV over My TV after trying it, I can't even say how to improve the EPG setup now, but something needs to be done. With BTV, there is no setup beyond entering your area code and selecting your provider. I did get it to work with the zap2it plugin, but the guide still wasnt as good as btv. [/QUOTE]
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