[mythtv-users] MythTV vs XBMC

Thomas Mashos thomas at mashos.com
Thu May 8 17:35:22 UTC 2014


On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Jim Oltman <jim.oltman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 5/8/2014 8:14 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 08:10 -0400, Greg Thompson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I believe XBMC looks the same everywhere since they decided to use All
>>>> OpenGL for their interface, rather than QT and a window manager...
>>>
>>> And so yes, MythFE could copy that and shed baggage, etc., but again
>>>
>>> with the shoulders of giants.
>>
>>
>> Every time that is suggested in earnest, it is met with all kinds of push
>> back from users wanting to run on low end machines that don't have the GPU
>> necessary to run OpenGL only.
>
>
> Wouldn't that be a "vote" for XBMC on a RPi or Android device?  Low power,
> and plays the content they want.
>
>
> _______________________________________________

Also, who's pushing back? Almost 90% of the users run multiple
cores/cpus, and almost 75% are running faster than 2Ghz systems (99.5%
run faster than 1Ghz). What is the cutoff for OpenGL?

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos


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