[mythtv] add support for SQLite?

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Sun Mar 4 04:15:56 UTC 2007


On Mar 3, 2007, at 8:10 PM, Chris Pinkham wrote:

> * On Sat Mar 03, 2007 at 07:47:14PM -0800, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>>> * On Sat Mar 03, 2007 at 11:07:51PM +0000, James Chapman wrote:
>>>
>>> So doubling flash to 32MB to hold a compressed embedded MySQL along
>>> with
>>> the extra 32-64MB of RAM is going to double the price of this PVR?
>>> I'd
>>> venture to say that the MPEG-2 license is going to cost more than
>>> those
>>> two chips combined.  Don't forget about the Qt license as well.
>>> Memory
>>> is probably the least thing holding a MythTV STB back, there are  
>>> much
>>> more costlier things that would make up the final price.
>>
>> Paying licensing fees for MySQL in a commercial product can be
>> expensive. Including SQLite in a commercial product is free.
>
> And you didn't even address my point. :)  He wasn't even talking about
> the price of MySQL vs SQLite, he was talking about space savings in  
> both
> Flash and RAM and how increasing those would potentially double (with
> questionmarks) the price of the STB.

Sorry. I didn't realize I had to address your points instead of just  
throwing another valid point out there. I don't care which database  
it uses as long as it continues to work.



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