Scott Barker wrote: > Can I assume that the nightly builds at > http://www.mvpmc.org/builds/ are no longer changing, then?
You should post that question on the dev list. I was under the impression that the nightlys were still being automatically updated as patches were committed, but you as mentioned that "there hasn't been any changes to the mvpmc git repository for 4 months," which I find unexpected, given that there has been discussion of several different patches on the dev list in the past few months. > Also, I'm guessing no-one is interested in porting mvpmc to other > devices? > I've got an Asus O!Play... That'd be neat, and I'd consider an O!Play as a cheap alternative to running a full front-end (which Eric mentions is now much cheaper, but still probably twice the cost of an O!Play HDP-R1), but according to: http://www.iboum.com/pr/ASUSO.php http://www.iboum.com/pr/ASUSO-AIR.php (O!Play Air HDP-R3) it uses the Realtek chipset, which has a proprietary driver. Michael Drons looked at using another Realtek-based media player and ran into this limitation. I'd like to see mvpmc carry on to some of these devices, with the added ability to support HD playback, but it seems like the market is getting too fragmented with too many devices, and mvpmc has a fairly small user and developer base, so it's hard to develop momentum behind a new port. Martin ran into that problem with the NMT (Popcorn Hour). He wrote: > The problem isn't the MVP alternative, the problem is the lack of > desire to build this client. Given the power of the ION this is > understandable, but with the EGreat M34a NMT's at $140 it's still > relatively expensive. The other thing were finally seeing is a dedicated media appliance product that uses an open source (derived) media client as its software: The Boxee Box. http://www.iboum.com/pr/boxee-box.php It's too soon to say, but I assume it is just a matter of time before someone loads the fully open XBMC onto one of those, and in time the hardware will probably fall below the cost of a general purpose nettop (like the Acer Aspire Revo), plus it comes bundled with a remote and is otherwise turn-key media player hardware. (I wonder, does the Boxee media player use the cmyth MythTV client like XBMC, or does it only provide UPnP access?) -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list Mvpmc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
