<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 5, 2007 3:22 PM, Charles Mason <<a href="mailto:charlie.mas@gmail.com">charlie.mas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">On Dec 5, 2007 8:47 PM, Jochen Kühner <<a href="mailto:jochen.kuehner@gmx.de">jochen.kuehner@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br>> there is also mythtvplayer for windows...<br>><br><br></div>Its true but its not the same as a proper "10 foot" / "from the sofa"
<br>GUI. Its like comparing Windows Media Player with Windows Media<br>Center, they are designed to do different things despite the fact they<br>both basically just play video.<br><br>Thats not to say mythtvplayer & VLC + Tapeworm don't have there place.
<br>They are very handy for quickly accessing a single recording. But its<br>not the same as being able to get the Frontend on every major platform<br>Linux, Mac and Windows.<br><br>The Backend is not so important because people tend to use another
<br>machine dedicated as a backend or some times as a set top box. Either<br>way they can choose what ever OS they want to use.</blockquote>
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<div>I'm waiting patiently for the backend services. I recently bought a great deal on an HP media center machine for my desktop and it includes a Hauppague HD tuner. I know it will be hard to get this working in Linux due to lack of drivers so I'd love to have a mini-backend service I can run on the Windows box as an overflow tuner rather than building yet another backend just for one more card. My current backend is all out of PCI slots...
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<div>Kevin</div></div>