After a hen do last weekend my girlfeind (sp? ) stayed at the soon to be married's house. They run WMC. She was impressed by how slick it looked and some of the features. The main gist was 'How easy it was to search for programmes", date recorded searches and how it was easier to set which programmes were to be recorded.

We have been using KnoppMyth for some time and I like it a lot. I do wonder if somethings could be done better, certainly as far as organisation of menus perhaps. Are there things we can learn form M$? If so what can be done to improve things? I'm not about to hand over cash to Micros(ha)ft, but already I can feel the pressure mounting. I've never used WMC and know next to nothing about it but I expect there are a few around here that have.

What features does it have that we don'? What are we missing?

What can we glean from M$'s multi million pound / dollar research that we can appropriate for ourselves?

If there is something, we should show our admiration with the sincerest form of flattery there is.

What might these things be?

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Hi,

If one doesn't care for the KM menu layouts and navigation flow, change it You can do that with the open source material quite easily. Make a list of what she thinks she wants, then give her what she needs and make it look like what she wants

About the only menu I have not "tweaked" is the first setup which someday I may go in and switch positions 4 & 5.

Mike

Maybe nothing, and your GF's friend spent more time showing her than you did?
'round here, nobody but me has bothered to look at the searches. Everyone else just scrolls through the guide, looking for gems. I could show them the search right now, and pass it off as a great upgrade.

Quite... (hangs head in shame)

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Apply one of Justin Hornsby themes. My wife fell for Neon wide.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/justin.hornsby2/

Turn on OpenGL - Yeah it is just eye candy.

Setup a Dynamic DNS account (www.no-ip.com) and foward a port for MythWeb. Then send your girlfriend the URL/password so she can search/ schedule her PVR from anywhere on the internet.

If my gf choose M$ over KnoppMyth, she'd no longer be my gf.

Cecil, it was a close quite a close thing there...

Thanks for the link spalVl.

Next time I'm over at these 'friends' of ours. I'll have a good look (in the interests of scientific research you understand) and be suitably snobby.

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Yay! somebody finally realised neon-wide is available

I've added it and it will be in the next release.

I thought you were too busy to work on the next release...Oh wait it's April 3rd now

Martian

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Top Features knoppmyth should 'borrow' from WMC

1. Ability to play TV, Music, Video whilst browsing other content. Great for all of us with short attention spans.
2. 'One click' record feature without having to go into a sub menu to set schedules within the guide. (other than that, MythTV kicks ass in this dept.)
3. Download latest guide data (alright this one you can add youself, but WMC has it set out of the box)

I agree with trying another theme. I think that Myth does so much that the menus can get a little overwhelming. My wife was a little cool on Myth cuz the menus till I changed to Bloo. It appears a little more polished and even though the menus are the same she took right to it. Of course I took credit for something that took me all of 30 seconds to do.

Bloo also has a DVR mode that simplifies the menus. You can take a look at that also.

I do agree with the comment about the one button record though. That would be a nice feature.

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Actually, I think being able to browse other stuff while watching TV or listening to music, or even surf the net would be the one the feature that is missing.

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Another tip is to modify the menus and pull out the stuff you and the girlfriend don't use.

Like we don't use MythPhone, & MythGame, so I modify the menus to remove those 2 items and the associated settings.

TIP: Safe way to modify menus without messing up orginal menus is to copy the menu from /usr/share/mythtv to /home/mythtv then edit the menu in /home/mythtv MythTV will use the menu in /home/mythtv rather than system one.

The 'R' key is a one click recording option when in the guide.