[mythtv-users] myth tv on windows or equivalent open source prog?

[Aaron Griffin]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:25:19 -0400, Joseph A. Caputo
<jcaputo1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 September 2004 12:50, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:55:32PM -0400, Félix-Antoine Marchildon
> wrote:
> > > I'm incredibly suprised with the power of mythtv but I need to run
> > > a pvr software on a windows xp machine too. Does someone know if
> > > there's a release for win32 os? Or maybe another program (open
> > > source/GPL or any other) that would do the job?
> >
> > As a systems analyst, I'm forced to ask those hard questions.  :-)
> >
> > Precisely what requirement is it that you have that specifies the
> > Operating System for a box that is, basically, an appliance?
> >
> > Functionality -> Application -> OS is the customary decision tree;
> > you're starting at the wrong end.
> 
> Well, presumably he has a machine on which he'd like to run Myth in some
> capacity, but is unable to have it be a dedicated appliance.  Perhaps
> it's a desktop machine that he doesn't have full control over.
> Whatever the reason, he's not starting at the wrong end; it's just that
> there may be more than just "PVR" on the "Functionality" end of the
> equation.
> 
> -JAC
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I vote Cygwin and compile Myth from source!


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