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<blockquote data-quote="etheesdad" data-source="post: 398257" data-attributes="member: 84335"><p>Seems to me that about every 3 weeks there's a post on this forum, from someone who has given up and walked away. Which is understandable as I think few people here would have been lucky enough to get MP working (with all of their favorite plugins and features) 100% without a lot of perseverance and hard work. </p><p></p><p>As Ray points out, its probably not an 'out of the box' solution (with all features enabled). Yet. MP 1.0 is pretty close to it though in my experience using just the defaults.</p><p></p><p>My experience as been that the RC's were a lot of hard work, but that 1.0 was pretty much a breeze in comparison. </p><p></p><p>Two things occur to me when I read these posts. </p><p></p><p>1. There's a great community here and if you ask for help with *proper support-request posts*, it will get you over the humps. There's also a significant body of knowledge in the forums if you take some time to sift through and read.</p><p></p><p>2. Plug-in support is something I think many new users jump into too soon. Ideally, MP should be set up MP with the defaults, and just get the TVserver up and running, install codecs, make a disk image, and then gradually work from there. If something goes wrong, go back to the image and start from what worked. Seems to me that jumping straight in to all the appealing fun stuff/features mediaportal has to offer without getting the basic features working first, may trip a lot of people up when they're starting out.</p><p></p><p>The thing that kept me at it is that I really dont like Microsoft software, because its so rigid, and had gone the very-hard route of MythTV prior to MP (vowing never to go back to it after 3 full weeks of hell typing arcane commands into the Terminal). My penchant against MS is firmly affirmed by MCE and Vista Ultimate because their media centres are so limited and dont offer anywhere near the configurability of MP. </p><p></p><p>So for TV, as I understand it, you have GB-PVR, Sagetv, MythTV, ChrisTV, Linux MCE and the MS Media Centre offerings (including Windows7 which admittedly is very easy to set up, and very good, notwithstanding its current issues with subtitles). For features MythTV and LinuxMCE are closest to MP. Neither are a walk in the park, though.</p><p></p><p>I wish you luck with whatever option you go for.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="etheesdad, post: 398257, member: 84335"] Seems to me that about every 3 weeks there's a post on this forum, from someone who has given up and walked away. Which is understandable as I think few people here would have been lucky enough to get MP working (with all of their favorite plugins and features) 100% without a lot of perseverance and hard work. As Ray points out, its probably not an 'out of the box' solution (with all features enabled). Yet. MP 1.0 is pretty close to it though in my experience using just the defaults. My experience as been that the RC's were a lot of hard work, but that 1.0 was pretty much a breeze in comparison. Two things occur to me when I read these posts. 1. There's a great community here and if you ask for help with *proper support-request posts*, it will get you over the humps. There's also a significant body of knowledge in the forums if you take some time to sift through and read. 2. Plug-in support is something I think many new users jump into too soon. Ideally, MP should be set up MP with the defaults, and just get the TVserver up and running, install codecs, make a disk image, and then gradually work from there. If something goes wrong, go back to the image and start from what worked. Seems to me that jumping straight in to all the appealing fun stuff/features mediaportal has to offer without getting the basic features working first, may trip a lot of people up when they're starting out. The thing that kept me at it is that I really dont like Microsoft software, because its so rigid, and had gone the very-hard route of MythTV prior to MP (vowing never to go back to it after 3 full weeks of hell typing arcane commands into the Terminal). My penchant against MS is firmly affirmed by MCE and Vista Ultimate because their media centres are so limited and dont offer anywhere near the configurability of MP. So for TV, as I understand it, you have GB-PVR, Sagetv, MythTV, ChrisTV, Linux MCE and the MS Media Centre offerings (including Windows7 which admittedly is very easy to set up, and very good, notwithstanding its current issues with subtitles). For features MythTV and LinuxMCE are closest to MP. Neither are a walk in the park, though. I wish you luck with whatever option you go for. [/QUOTE]
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