[mythtv-users] Popcorn Hour Unit as VIdeo Output?

[Florin Andrei]

Jake wrote:
> 
> mvpmc is being ported to work on the popcorn hour as well as a few
> other platforms.  i believe they even have some working code:
> 
> http://www.mvpmc.org/~gettler/
> 
> since mvpmc supports commerical skip, bookmarking and livetv now i
> assume that is the goal for the ports which IMHO makes this a more
> interesting option than upnp.

I thought PH looked interesting a while ago, but being UPnP-only was a 
show-stopper for me. A proper MythTV frontend is a must, UPnP alone 
lacks too many features to be really useful.

Until this issue is solved, I decided to build a standard MythTV 
frontend on a system with good modern 3D capabilities, and so make it a 
dual-purpose machine: MythTV frontend and Windows gaming "console". All 
it needs above and beyond mythtv requirements is a good 3D card, the 
rest can be pretty trivial.
For a frontend-only machine, power consumption is not very important, 
since it doesn't have to be up 24/7.

The fact that I had already a server running 24/7 doing other things, 
that could also become a mythtv backend at almost no cost (except the 
hard-drive), facilitated the decision very much.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/