[mythtv-users] Could we install/run Mythtv without X-windows

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 09 September 2005 01:25 pm, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 14:16 -0300, Kyle Kelly wrote:
> > I seem to remember reading somewhere that qt4 has support for installing
> > without the gui functionality, and that this could possibly be used to
> > make mythbackend not require X when it is eventually ported to qt4.
>
> Well there is that too.  The Gnu folks got this right a long time ago
> when they separated glib and gtk.
>
> But that is not really what I mean.  What I am saying is that X is way
> too big a hammer for the job.  DirectFB is much better suited at the
> kind of space that Myth is in -- the STB.  But that would take QT being
> able to run on DirectFB which AFAIK it does not.  :-(  QT-Embedded (or
> whatever it is) is too far in the other direction.  It does not have
> hardware acceleration (and other video card) suport that DirectFB has.

Last I checked, DirectFB was pretty lacking in the hardware support area, too.

Isaac