[mythtv-users] MythTV vs XBMC

[Greg Thompson]

>> Because the RPi is a piece of junk, with less CPU power than a low-end
>> frontend
>> when MythTV was first released 10 years ago.  It's designed to be dirt
>> cheap
>> above all else, with all kinds of hardware compromises along the way.
>>  You have
>> a big GPU to make up for the shortcomings in the CPU, but with no X
>> support, it
>> would require a substantial amount of effort to port the UI to it, and
>> there
>> have been far too widely mixed comments on how well it runs XBMC to call
>> it a
>> "champ".  I would at least choose one of the readily available Cortex
>> boards as
>> a standard.
>>
>>  ...which was exactly my point. Thanks, Raymond.
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> Mike Perkins
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I think you guys should watch this.. A LOT of work has gone into XBMC on
the PI and it actually works pretty good now for 35$ (and Dom is continuing
to optimize the XBMC code to run even better)

http://www.raspberrypi.org/xbmc-performance-demo/
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