[mythtv-users] Looking ahead: system requirements for .22

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Wed Jan 14 21:22:02 UTC 2009


Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> With the talk of .22 and its new user interface starting to heat up
>> here, I am curious as to what type of system requirements will be
>> needed to run this version and take advantage of the all the new
>> OpenGL stuff.
> 
> 
> I'm running on the exact same hardware I was running 0.21 on.  The only real
> difference I can see is that people may want to invest in Nvidia 8000/9000
> series cards in order to us VDPAU which currently can render video using the
> GPU but it looks like Isaac is also working on getting it to render the
> menus as well which really would make it the killer hardware to have.
> 
Maybe - but a lot of us are running on older or non-current hardware, 
particularly backends. I would hope that the new system will function just as 
well on existing "lighter weight" hardware.

-- 

Mike Perkins



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