[mythtv-users] Myth Demo

[Raalph A]

Jay Summet wrote:
> Raalph A wrote:
>   
>> Has anyone ever set up a Myth demo build?  I'm thinking a
>> psuedo-functioning BE/FE system that comes with a couple weeks of sample
>> SD schedule info preloaded, and a handful of snippet videos/songs/pics,
>> just so someone can install it and get a feel for the UI and the various
>> functionality.  I've managed to compile trunk and get it running on my
>> laptop (booting Ubuntu off of a USB hard disk), but having no capture
>> card and no schedule data, I've thus far been pretty limited with how
>> much of the functionality I can explore.  I'd guess that I'm not the
>> only one that would download and play with a relatively self-contained
>> (easy to install, easy to remove) package that shows off the latest 0.22
>> features.
>>
>>     
>
> A virtual/emulated machine would be perfect for this type of a demo.
> If I were to build something like this, I'd make it a vmware disk image,
> so that people could use the free vmware player to just start a virtual
> FE/BE up and play with it.  (I suppose you could  use Xen or some other
> non-commercial product as well....) Video playback (via emulated
> hardware) wouldn't have any hardware accelleration to help it out, but
> if you limited it to SD playback (or smaller!) it should work well emulated.
>
> As long as people are willing to download a several hundred meg disk
> image that would be an easy way to play a demo.
>
> Jay
>
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Reckon I could get a sample of SD schedule data?  A dump from MySQL might be the easiest.