[mythtv-users] Myth Demo

[Jay Summet]

Raalph A wrote:
> Has anyone ever set up a Myth demo build?  I'm thinking a
> psuedo-functioning BE/FE system that comes with a couple weeks of sample
> SD schedule info preloaded, and a handful of snippet videos/songs/pics,
> just so someone can install it and get a feel for the UI and the various
> functionality.  I've managed to compile trunk and get it running on my
> laptop (booting Ubuntu off of a USB hard disk), but having no capture
> card and no schedule data, I've thus far been pretty limited with how
> much of the functionality I can explore.  I'd guess that I'm not the
> only one that would download and play with a relatively self-contained
> (easy to install, easy to remove) package that shows off the latest 0.22
> features.
> 

A virtual/emulated machine would be perfect for this type of a demo.
If I were to build something like this, I'd make it a vmware disk image,
so that people could use the free vmware player to just start a virtual
FE/BE up and play with it.  (I suppose you could  use Xen or some other
non-commercial product as well....) Video playback (via emulated
hardware) wouldn't have any hardware accelleration to help it out, but
if you limited it to SD playback (or smaller!) it should work well emulated.

As long as people are willing to download a several hundred meg disk
image that would be an easy way to play a demo.

Jay

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