[mythtv-users] MythTV vs XBMC

[Sam Jacobs]

On 8 May 2014 at 17:47:27, Raymond Wagner (raymond at wagnerrp.com) wrote:
> Because the RPi is a piece of junk, with less CPU power than a low-end
> frontend when MythTV was first released 10 years ago. […]

Perhaps I’m just being patriotic (which, I can assure you, doesn’t happen very often—at least not *this* kind of patriotic), but I think that’s a little unfair. The Raspberry Pi was developed to promote and aid computer science teaching to schoolchildren.

Just because it has composite and HDMI outputs does not mean that everyone should just blithely assume that all it is is a crappy media centre type device.

Sam


> […] It's designed to
> be dirt cheap above all else, with all kinds of hardware compromises
> along the way. You have a big GPU to make up for the shortcomings in
> the CPU, but with no X support, it would require a substantial amount of
> effort to port the UI to it, and there have been far too widely mixed
> comments on how well it runs XBMC to call it a "champ". I would at
> least choose one of the readily available Cortex boards as a standard.

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