[mythtv-users] Re:Nupplevideo, why?

[Brian Foddy]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Cedar McKay wrote:

> >  The only thing standing in
> > the way of a Windows (or OSX, *BSD, Solaris, AIX, etc) Myth frontend 
> > is the
> > dedication of someone to write it.  The formats and protocols are open 
> > for
> > inspection.  (Of course, a free version of Qt/Windows would help...)
> >
> 
> a  GPL version of QT/mac was just released so I'm crossing my fingers 
> that someone with the ability to sort out the endian issues will do a 
> (hopefully quick and easy) frontend port to OS X
> 

That's the easy part.  Rewritting all the MMX and SSE assembly code
into the equiv PPC instructions is probably much more work.  Remember 
the only reason this app performs the way it does is because of these
parts.  In straight C, it will take a lot more horsepower.

Brian