<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian D. Frost</b> <<a href="mailto:bfrost@brainboy.com">bfrost@brainboy.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>I have lurked for a while and googled even longer but havent found a good windows frontend for windows. I have used winmyth and mythtvplayer but they arent quite the frontend that I am looking for (for my wife).<br><br>
Any thoughts on using mythdora or knoppmyth in a vmware appliance or using an opensource uPNP frontend (Mediaportal type thing)?<br><br>Until I convert my wife to linux, any one have any personal experience with this? I am running .20...
<br></div></blockquote></div><br>Just for fun I installed knoppmyth on a virtual machine. Playback of standard definition mpeg-2 recordings was unacceptably choppy. It maxed out both CPU's of my 3Ghz Pentium D. A fast core 2 duo/quad processor might give you enough power for smooth playback. But any HDTV playback would be impossible I think. The problem is the virtual machine can't use any hardware GPU acceleration.
<br><br clear="all">What frontend features are you missing? mythtvplayer and mythweb pretty much cover all the bases I think.<br><br>-- <br>_____________<br>Ryan Patterson