Oh absolutely - XBMC shouldn't be used for actual TV - it just doesn't cut it smoothly. <div>For a physically attached or network attached digital video library though, the scraping and sorting is the stuff of nerdy dreams. I've also found it comes with a high <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_acceptance_factor">WAF</a>.<div>
<br></div><div>Dan<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 May 2012 20:23, Brian Pickford <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bpickford@united-springs.com" target="_blank">bpickford@united-springs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm a mythtv man and mythbuntu has become easier and easier to use. Happy to help with configuration like channel set up is needed.<div>
<br></div><div>I use a mixture of freeview and freesat tuners.</div><div><br></div>
<div>XBMC looks very good as a frontend and media player. I think it does not tackle recording and scheduling by it's self,but can through a mythtv backend.</div><div><br></div><div>HD playback is pretty good now with cheap nvidia vdpau capable hardware<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 May 2012 19:29, Dan Caseley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan@caseley.me.uk" target="_blank">dan@caseley.me.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p>I love XBMC. I hear their latest XBMCbuntu is super easy, but I haven't gotten around to trying it yet.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On May 3, 2012 6:48 PM, "Benjamin Crowe" <<a href="mailto:sneblot@gmail.com" target="_blank">sneblot@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="ltr">Hi, <br><br>Does anyone know of a good media centre Linux distro out there for a beginner?<br><br>Regards<br>Ben <br></div>
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