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Mythfrontend for Windows

I've been looking for application simular to mythfrontend that can play Live TV from MythTV server (mythbackend) under Windows for a while. Currently there is a windows port of mythfrontend but it needs to be built from source with MinGW/MSys. So I searched for an easier way and found pretty good application called MythTV Player. It doesn't require any additional software or multimedia codecs and simply works out of the box. It is still in development stage so you may experience some issues during video playback, but after almost week of hard usage there was quite few player hangs and no other noticeable bugs. Here is the screenshot and the download link

MythTv Player latest version
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