On Sep 9, 5:23 am, cesman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The whole "media center" under Linux is under great flux right now. > > Many projects that offer a "complete" solution but all seem to be > > missing something or require lots of ponies to run. > > Scott, > > Can you provide more details? As I'm working hard on KnoppMyth R6 and > I'd like to make sure it is complete. :) Me personally, a "media > center" isn't worth it without DVR functionality.
Unfortunately I'm just not happy with mythfrontend at all. It's resource (memory and cpu) impact is huge. For a high performance box with combined front/backend it seems to work fine. But the trade off is big noisy box that just does not fit in any media room. I work real hard to have a good setup and to have it spoiled with the noise of fans is silly. It's not going to change because it works for the devs and that's fine. LiveTV will never improve beyond where it is because the devs don't do LiveTV, that's fine too. The push into QT4 has me very concerned about resource usage. Others would say, start developing for it but based on the response of the devs to others, they would not like what I would want to do and I would get ejected pretty quick. The whole memory leak thread that went on a few weeks ago is a good example. The quy had to prove it was leaking by running valgrid. Forcing a user to run valgrid on a already resourse limited box, that's just cruel. The way mythfrontend handles non-recorded content is disjointed with the recorded content. I'm sorry but I not going to go through all the conniptions just to get access to my DVDs. While I could live without LiveTV, there are others in my household where this is unacceptable. So a mythfrontend is starting to look less and less attractive because it will not provide features than I need to put it front and center in the media room. So I'm looking to take the best of myth which is it's backend with content capture and scheduling, storage and such. Then combine that with a frontend that's quiet, fast and does the job without consuming a ton of resources. Right now XBMC seems to be headed that way. It runs on OSX/Linux/Windows (not that I would run a windows platform). It has a ton of developers and most important, they are very friendly. Yes, no builting DVR but mythbackend handles that just fine right now. And it does know about mythtv and can access the database. Does that mean I'm going to abandon mythfrontend work on the AppleTV, not a chance. You never know, someone might just re-write it and solve all the issues. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/atv-bootloader?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
