Freevo Developers Interviewed

prostoalex writes "O'Reilly's LinuxDevCenter features Freevo, 'a media platform that brings together various applications for video recording and playback.' They interview the developers, and talk about the current plans for the project. Freevo is not just a standalone product, it's a platform to which other developers, interested in home media on Linux, can plug into."

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Re:Freevo vs. MythTV

[Cthefuture]

It seems that Freevo would be far easier to modify and write plugins for than Myth (which mostly written in C).

Probably, Myth is written mostly in C++ though. The code is a horrible hack job though. Written by a college student. Not that all college student projects suck, it's just that usually the inexperienced create poor designs initially.

Even the creators of Freevo claim they did not know Python before they started.

This is not a good thing either. Same problem as above.

Overall, MythTV looks a lot better and has more features because more people have been working on it. The code is often buggy and hard to hack on. However, it does work resonably well and I've been happily using MythTV for over a year with no major issues.