[mythtv] Interesting Comparison

[Green, Bob]

Okay, its head above the parapet time! Guys, guys, what's going on here?
Isn't this how wars start? Whatever happened to reasoned debate; to the
freedom to express an opinion without being shot down in flames. So,
someone has a new tool that he thinks is the dog's wotsits - how is that
a Bad Thing(tm). Do none of you programmers out there not remember what
its like to write some code that you think is great and you end up
boring all your friends with the details. Anyway I digress; my view (for
what it's worth) is that we should be openminded about any new
developments, large or small that in any way overlap MythTv's raison
d'etre. We can't believe that we have a monopoly on good ideas. As soon
as we stop looking outward, we end up with a product that is in danger
of becoming stale. Give this guy a chance. We might hate his offering,
we might like it - who knows, but whatever we do, we should encourage
this sort of thing rather than flame it. For those of you who remember
life before Linux, remember what happened to Andrew Tannenbaum of Minix
fame. He absolutely flamed Linus Torvalds and his software when he
announced version 0.11 of Linux and within a couple of months he and his
(up to then) thriving operating system had been consigned to obscurity.
 
Oh well, I'll stop ranting now, I guess I've made my point - the
stupidest idea is one that is never voiced for fear of it being
ridiculed.
 
Time for a lie down in a quiet room, I think :-)
 
-Bob
 
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From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Lasse Nisted
Sent: 03 March 2006 10:11
To: Development of mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv] Interesting Comparison


Are you saying you actually implemented OSD, XvMC acceleration,
VIA XvMC acceleration, LiveTV (with pause, etc.)
in... perl? Or is that in the normal feature set of a browser?

I'm impressed if the answer to any of those questions is yes, 
though I don't think it is...?


On 3/3/06, mythtv at zacglen.com.au < mythtv at zacglen.com.au
<mailto:mythtv at zacglen.com.au> > wrote: 

	>No idea what the point of starting this thread was but at least
reading 
	>Chris Pinkham's reply did crack me up :)
	>
	
	The point is that MythTV is bloated bug-ridden software which
	mostly just duplicates the functionality of a browser.
	
	Do the math - 112,792 lines vs a probable 3000 lines of Perl. 
	
	Do the experiment - try developing a Perl/whatever version and
see how far you
	get, how long it takes, and what the result is like.
	
	I have taken the trouble to do the experiment.
	The results are impressive. 
	
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