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I spent quite a bit of time looking at MP2 and decided to use MP1 for the following reasons:
1) I find MP1's screens more user friendly (I think the user interface is more rounded). For example, I really like the way you can cycle around the available channels where MP2 stops at BBC One;
2) MP2 has a central configuration option - meaning that I can have one set-up for all clients. With MP2, you have to manually set-up each client individually.

These two points were deal breakers for me. I guess that, because MP1 has been around for much longer than MP2, users have had more time to get their user requests processed and I think the GUI reflects that.

The reason I produced the refactored version was to make the back-end for MP1 multi-user - which, for me, was MP1's major weakness. I hope that this weakness has been now been eradicated giving MP1 a better future.

I had to re-write pretty much the whole back-end to achieve this and this involved writing/changing thousands of lines of code. Therefore, I think it will need thorough testing before it can be released. I mention this because, so far, I have not received any feedback regarding release 1.29.012 and, therefore, have no idea how people are getting on with it.

I have been using 1.29.013 for several months with only very minor errors but that is only me using MP1 the way I use it. I think we need a good deal of feedback before we can have any idea as to whether it is ready for release - and that is without integrating the third-party software that may not work anymore. But there is no point in doing that until we have got the main product and the fanart handler ratified.

Sorry about the rant but this needs to be actioned if we are to move forward with this.

<blockquote data-quote="Anthony Vaughan" data-source="post: 1288412" data-attributes="member: 153283">Just so you know, MP1 sets this here:[ATTACH=full]209953[/ATTACH]I spent quite a bit of time looking at MP2 and decided to use MP1 for the following reasons:1) I find MP1's screens more user friendly (I think the user interface is more rounded). For example, I really like the way you can cycle around the available channels where MP2 stops at BBC One;2) MP2 has a central configuration option - meaning that I can have one set-up for all clients. With MP2, you have to manually set-up each client individually.These two points were deal breakers for me. I guess that, because MP1 has been around for much longer than MP2, users have had more time to get their user requests processed and I think the GUI reflects that.The reason I produced the refactored version was to make the back-end for MP1 multi-user - which, for me, was MP1's major weakness. I hope that this weakness has been now been eradicated giving MP1 a better future.I had to re-write pretty much the whole back-end to achieve this and this involved writing/changing thousands of lines of code. Therefore, I think it will need thorough testing before it can be released. I mention this because, so far, I have not received any feedback regarding release 1.29.012 and, therefore, have no idea how people are getting on with it.I have been using 1.29.013 for several months with only very minor errors but that is only me using MP1 the way I use it. I think we need a good deal of feedback before we can have any idea as to whether it is ready for release - and that is without integrating the third-party software that may not work anymore. But there is no point in doing that until we have got the main product and the fanart handler ratified.Sorry about the rant but this needs to be actioned if we are to move forward with this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Anthony Vaughan, post: 1288412, member: 153283"] Just so you know, MP1 sets this here: [ATTACH type="full"]209953[/ATTACH] I spent quite a bit of time looking at MP2 and decided to use MP1 for the following reasons: 1) I find MP1's screens more user friendly (I think the user interface is more rounded). For example, I really like the way you can cycle around the available channels where MP2 stops at BBC One; 2) MP2 has a central configuration option - meaning that I can have one set-up for all clients. With MP2, you have to manually set-up each client individually. These two points were deal breakers for me. I guess that, because MP1 has been around for much longer than MP2, users have had more time to get their user requests processed and I think the GUI reflects that. The reason I produced the refactored version was to make the back-end for MP1 multi-user - which, for me, was MP1's major weakness. I hope that this weakness has been now been eradicated giving MP1 a better future. I had to re-write pretty much the whole back-end to achieve this and this involved writing/changing thousands of lines of code. Therefore, I think it will need thorough testing before it can be released. I mention this because, so far, I have not received any feedback regarding release 1.29.012 and, therefore, have no idea how people are getting on with it. I have been using 1.29.013 for several months with only very minor errors but that is only me using MP1 the way I use it. I think we need a good deal of feedback before we can have any idea as to whether it is ready for release - and that is without integrating the third-party software that may not work anymore. But there is no point in doing that until we have got the main product and the fanart handler ratified. Sorry about the rant but this needs to be actioned if we are to move forward with this. [/QUOTE]