I've been considering an Xbox frontend as well, but I had been looking at XBMC:<br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Xbox_Frontend#Running_XBMC_MythTV_Frontend">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Xbox_Frontend#Running_XBMC_MythTV_Frontend
</a><br><br>I would be grateful if someone could run down a quick pros/cons of using XBMC vs Xebian for something that would be a dedicated MythFrontend. It's not really covered in the Wiki.<br><br>Thanks!<br><br><div>
<span class="gmail_quote">On 6/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">George Nassas</b> <<a href="mailto:gnassas@mac.com">gnassas@mac.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 style=""><span class="q"><div><div>On 29-Jun-07, at 12:59 PM, William Munson wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">
The biggest gotcha is that the xbox with myth is so slow its unusable.<span> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">
10 seconds to change menus</font></p> </blockquote></div><div><br></div></span><div>You're doing something wrong if it's 10 seconds between menus. With no tweaking at all I was seeing 1 or 2 second pauses while the appropriate code was paged in and once you're in a menu, say Watch Recordings, it's smooth sailing until you move to another menu.
</div><div><br></div><div>I'm curious about the next release when we pick up code that eliminates multiple copies of graphics in theme elements. Should make a real difference given the xbox's memory constraints.</div>
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