Thanks for the info, Tom. It looks like I should just bide my time for a few months, and see what shakes out in the market, and in the open source world, for these new media boxes.
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:00:12 -0500, Tom Metro wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users > mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/ -- Scott Barker [email protected] Linux Consultant http://www.mostlylinux.ca/scott ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
