Is mediaportal going to survive the new xbmc (1 Viewer)

[marv]

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the_ult:

XBMC
pros:
- Skins (love the Alaska Skin)
- Almost everything plays out of the box (no codec trouble)
- HT- Experience plugin
- Being able to view the trailer that you downloaded with the movie. (If you're in doubt whether you're gonna like the movie or not)

cons:
- Less updates
- Harder to find Skin updates/changes
- harder to find the correct plugins
- Configuration only inside XBMC
- Not able to change a serie/movie when the wrong one is found
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the_ult, about your cons i have to say, that most of it are not really true.
- for updates u can use the nightly builds, which is highly recommended. the installation with the exe-installer is the simplest. (-> http://sshcs.com/xbmc/ )
- skin updates can be done through a script directy inside xbmc.
- don't know what u mean by "correct" plugins. but in the upcoming release there will be an addon-manager, which makes installing and updating plugins totally easy. it even can handle plugins which are written in any coding language - i am curious about that one.
- configuration inside xbmc is for me an advantage, which means i can do everything in front my tv with the remote.
- you can change wrong scraped movies/series. open the context menu (press "c") and remove the wrong item. then go to file mode and press info - you see all possible results and can choose manually. or you can change the scraper and try again.

next official release should be in few weeks.

just my 2cents.

regards
marv

 

[luksmann]

for me it's all about the tv-party - a combination of xbmc + MP tv-server would be perfect!

 

[marv]

you mean this?
XBMC extensions

 

[framug]

Re : Re: Is mediaportal going to survive the new xbmc

you mean this?
XBMC extensions

wow, seems nice.
Someone know where is sourcecode for this ?

EDIT : Never mind, found it.
Seems to be a mix of python and C#
At least, with VS08 solution.

 

[zicoz]

Isn't that the one that's suggested in the MP+Linux thread? According to that thread it's far from ready for production services.

 

[Dadeo]

My question is, will XBMC survive adding TV? I had to laugh watching them trying to keep up with all our RC releases!

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

xbmc is too simple in many ways, along rhe same lines as MCE, mainly our users want that little bit more, configurable wise, so it suits them, rather than the designers.

Think we both will be around for many years to come, as both aimed at different end users, tweakers will never die out

 

[marv]

tv support is certainly not comparable with mediaportal. it's not the main goal and maybe never will.
xbmc is surely aimed at people who want a stable, slick, easy and user-friendly mediacenter without tv support.

2 years ago i began using mediaportal as my first mediacenter. had to fiddle around a lot, it crashed sometimes and seemed rather fragile. a lot of stuff didn't work correctly.
i tried xbmc months later and was surprised how "clean" and tweaked it felt.

mediaportal 1.x has improved a lot since then, but i think it really starts getting an overwhelming mediacenter with version 2.

 

[poppabk]

XBMC seems like it is definitely designed for a different type of user than me. PVR functionality is the core of what I use MP for, so XBMC has never really been an option. I feel like XBMC is designed for people who mainly get their content through torrents etc, not people who are recording live TV and/or ripping disks. Adding a live tv workaround is not going to change that. The 'plays any file out of the box' is a little irrelevant if your content is either DVD isos, or recorded tv as they already work fine. Just as using MP in the US I can sometimes feel like the main focus is elsewhere, with XBMC, especially on windows, the feeling is that the functionality I require is not a priority. For people who have a lot of 'scene' material and no need for PVR functionality, I am sure that XBMC is a great choice.

 

[CrashUK]

big thing missing from xbmc is refrash changer.. they is a tv plug for it that works with mediaportal tv server.