[mythtv-users] Networked Media Tanks ?

[Brian Wood]

On Wednesday 15 July 2009 15:08:07 Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Brian Wood<beww at beww.org> wrote:
> > Now if we can get a frontend to run on hardware like this, or find some
> > other way to integrate them into a Myth system?
>
> mvpmc (http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net) is working on things like that,
> but progress has been slow due to general lack of interest.  It seems
> like the prevailing wind is to prefer running the real mythtv front
> end on things like the nVidia Ion platform and not bother with more
> limited hardware such as these.


Mvpmc is targetted at the MediaMVP. It can't handle h264, and likely never 
will, nor can it deal with MKV containers.

I'd say the lack of interest is due to the limitatons of the hardware. If the 
project expends to encompass more capable devices it may take off.

-- 
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org