Meedios vs Media Portal (1 Viewer)

[SpudR]

His'n'Hers springs to mind here

To much like giving in!! Just ditch the GF and get a geeky one
Many a long happy hour passed discussing the merits of windows & unix!!!

I think the TV bit in MP is the weakest bit - most of the issues raised seem to be based around this.
I don't use any of the TV stuff - so MP is fantastic!! Meedios seemed WAY too complicated...

 

[GoldenEye]

As a past Meedio user, I miss these features a lot in MP (which are Meedio's main advantages comparted to MP):
- Better tag reader: Reads many more tags into the database.
- Much better and more flexible database handling.
- More advanced database view generation and filtering.
- More flexible menu structuring options.

G.

 

[tourettes]

- Better tag reader: Reads many more tags into the database.
- Much better and more flexible database handling.
- More advanced database view generation and filtering.
- More flexible menu structuring options.

All those are on todo list for MPII...

 

[GoldenEye]

All those are on todo list for MPII...

That's exactly why I am sticking with MP. You and the whole MP dev team does a great job, btw. Thanks a lot for your time and effort.

G.

 

[pinguy]

Meedios has to be the most un-user friendly app I have ever used, it looks great but its a nightmare trying to set it up. I think I will stick to MediaPortal with the TVSeries plug-in and the SpinSafe theme.

 

[entropyomega]

I started playing with MyHTPC before it was even Meedio, I really loved the flexibility of the menus and the configuration of the data bases but the whole Yahoo fiasco left a bad taste in my mouth and around that time I started looking into Mediaportal.

I love Mediaportal, it has even inspired me to start learning some programming skills. I have to say that both programs at points have had me pulling my hair out, but the absolute most difficult part of either was getting my Skystar 2 to work properly through TV Engine 3. Just a hint for anyone else whose stuck...

Scan your channels in DVBDream,
Convert to Mediaportal (search for the program on DVBN)
Export the XML from Mediaportal,
Open the XML in a program that has a search and replace function,
Convert all horizontal polarity freq. to vertical. and the flag from horizontal to vertical

Took me forever to piece all that together and get it working.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

I love Mediaportal, it has even inspired me to start learning some programming skills. I have to say that both programs at points have had me pulling my hair out

Now i know why, seriously, all these various app's have there good points and there bad one's.

I would say the biggest bugbear is finding the ultimate analogue\dvb\atsc derisions, atm I do not consider anyone the leader, each has it advantages\drawbacks, what you do need to look at is the commitment of the developers, this far exceeds anything you may expect, so I do consider us no.1 on the activity scale