<html><head><style type='text/css'>body { font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000}</style></head><body>so mediaportal works as a frontend (uPNP)? How does it work?<br><br><br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "raphael" <rpooser@gmail.com><br>To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br>Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 4:47:14 PM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago<br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Windows frontend / upnp<br><br>ryan patterson wrote:<br>> <br>> <br>> On 3/28/07, *Brian D. Frost* <bfrost@brainboy.com <br>> <mailto:bfrost@brainboy.com>> wrote:<br>> <br>> I have lurked for a while and googled even longer but havent found a<br>> good windows frontend for windows. I have used winmyth and<br>> mythtvplayer but they arent quite the frontend that I am looking for<br>> (for my wife).<br>> <br>> Any thoughts on using mythdora or knoppmyth in a vmware appliance or<br>> using an opensource uPNP frontend (Mediaportal type thing)?<br>> <br>> Until I convert my wife to linux, any one have any personal<br>> experience with this? I am running .20...<br>> <br>> <br>> Just for fun I installed knoppmyth on a virtual machine. Playback of <br>> standard definition mpeg-2 recordings was unacceptably choppy. It maxed <br>> out both CPU's of my 3Ghz Pentium D. A fast core 2 duo/quad processor <br>> might give you enough power for smooth playback. But any HDTV playback <br>> would be impossible I think. The problem is the virtual machine can't <br>> use any hardware GPU acceleration.<br>> <br>> What frontend features are you missing? mythtvplayer and mythweb pretty <br>> much cover all the bases I think.<br>> <br>> -- <br>> _____________<br>> Ryan Patterson<br>> <br><br>If you're looking for a 10ft front end there aren't any for windows <br>besides mediaportal and the proprietary ones. Problem is then you don't <br>get auto commericial skipping. I think a while back some people tried it <br>through cygwin, and there are a bunch of problems with compiling. I <br>tried once and didn't get very far. You're probably better off dual <br>booting. I just stuck in a dedicated box, which freed the PC up for <br>gaming anyway.<br>Rapahel<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br></body></html>