> > [The following is *not* addressed to Brian specifically; Brian, please > don't take it as such. It's also in some ways a repeat of what I wrote > in > <URL:http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > msg53363.html>.] > > I know this is the cue for half the list to jump in with how they > built a great MythTV box out of the parts sitting in the closet, or > how they bought a $100 motherboard and a $25 case and a $100 CPU, > etc., etc., and built a great MythTV box. Hey, more power to > you. Guess what? Most of you aren't even trying to do HDTV, or if you > are you're likely the ones trying to play 1080i with a low-end Celeron > or two year-old AMD and finding that even XvMC doesn't help much. Let > me repeat: My time is worth money. Or, conversely, it can be > worthwhile to pay someone else to do the heavy lifting in the whole > parts procurement and assembly phase of MythTV. Heaven knows this list > is living proof that the software phase is difficult enough! > I would not have taken the above incorrectly, even without the disclaimer, your points are quite valid.
I realize that time is money of course. I just happen to be retired from the television broadcast business and have more time to tinker than most, and I can't resist playing around with Video. I do of course miss the days when the 3TB that I see mentioned as "huge storage" was the size of the RAM cache for our server, and our encoders cost more than the house I now live in :-) _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
