[mythtv-users] 0.22 themes - what have people seen?

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Tue Feb 24 19:32:05 UTC 2009


On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:04:09AM -0800, Robert McNamara wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:04 AM,  <paul10 at planar.id.au> wrote:
> >>> A couple of links to get you started :-)
> >>
> >> Aha, that would be a pretty poor effort of looking on my part then
> >> wouldn't it!!  Some very good stuff there, and some things I was trying to
> >> understand from the theme files themselves is probably making more sense.
> >
> > Sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere, but I am trying to get a
> > sense as to what kind of horsepower will be required to get all this
> > new eye candy running well.  I can currently play my HD recordings and
> > have a Sempron 3100+ (I know I am pushing the limits of that
> > processor, but it works fine for me w/o using xvmc).  I also have the
> > OpenGL fades on and no problem there.
> >
> > Can I expect to be able to take advantage of most of the new features
> > of the mythui?

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> 
> You won't have any trouble taking advantage of individual features of
> MythUI-- in most respects, MythUI features won't be any more processor
> intensive than the old UI as that's not really what MythUI aims to do.
>  MythUI is just the "toolset" which gives the themers maximum
> flexibility to create dazzling and fun effects, allowing them to

...the "mundane" seems to work well enough so far with a recent trunk
and my boxes including an AppleTV unit. You might find some of the 
default theme bits not to your liking but they are easy enough to modify
now.

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