[mythtv-users] How MANY backend threads!?!?!?

[Paul Gray]

On 14/10/2010 00:07, Robert McNamara wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Mark Small<msmall at eastlink.ca>  wrote:
>>>
>>> In fact, there was a discussion today about increasing our formal
>>> hardware requirements considerably to prevent hamstringing ourselfs
>>> with some of the UI and features we have planned.  Myth's hardware
>>> requirements are likely to increase in a non-trivial way going
>>> forward.
>>>
>>> Robert
>>
>> SMEG.
>>
>> If the frontend requirements go up I can live with it.  But I'd be saddened if
>> the backend requirements went too high.
>>
>> Mark
>
> I want to clarify that it is a *totally valid option* to remain at a
> given release of MythTV.  I just want people to start realizing that
> perpetually upgrading with the same hardware is not going to be
> possible forever, and that some of the new features planned on both
> front and backend may make the idea of running *new* versions of myth
> on whatever you can find in your closet impossible.
>
> We'd love for everyone to join us on the journey, but we're absolutely
> okay with the people who can or will only run on old or low power
> hardware putting the brakes on.  That's a matter of the user's
> priorities-- they just can't fault the devs when our priorities don't
> align.

Seems fair enough, but also surprising: MythTv is traditionally so very
configurable. What sort of things are planned that it wont be possible
to turn off for low-powered hardware?