<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</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;">
On Sunday 05 August 2007 18:44, Matt Emmott wrote:<br>> I just installed MythDora in a VM on my Windows host. It's the latest<br>> VMWare server with the latest VMWare tools. However, video performance<br>> isn't that great. Myth runs, but videos are very choppy - Sound is
<br>> consistent but I'm probably not getting more than 5 frames per second.<br>> Dragging windows around in X is a little sluggish as well.<br><br>I'd guess VMware does not give your guest OS direct access to the video
<br>hardware, and you are getting just frame buffer performance, but that's just<br>a guess.<br><br>"Windows" and "MythTV" are pretty much much like oil and water, IMHO.<br><br>You could try running Linux, with Windows under VMware.
</blockquote><div><br>That makes sense. This was a test run for a friend - He's building his Windows PC that he also wants to use as a Myth FE. I wanted to test the feasibility of running it in a VM, but I guess now it's starting to look like it might not be possible. If anybody else has had experience I'd love to hear about it.
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