[mythtvnz] Nvidia Ion

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Hadley Rich <hads at nice.net.nz> wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 January 2009 10:23:20 Nick Rout wrote:
>> Once several things are sorted:
>>
>> 1. will nvidia even be able to make these boards for a decent price
>> given intel's stated policy of only selling atom cpus with the
>> associated intel chipsets (which nvidia don't want to use or spend
>> money on).
>
> Here's a snippet saying that there's no issue;
>
> http://www.techpowerup.com/79933/Intel_Denies_False_Report_-
> _No_one_Prevents_Vendors_from_Using_NVIDIA_s_Ion_Platform.html


Excellent, good to see.

>
>> 2. myth 0.22 needs to be released, otherwise you are into trunk
>> territory. See discussions on the mythtv user mailing list about the
>> dangers of joe blogg using trunk, it requires dedication and an
>> understanding of the code, as well as watching the -dev and -commit
>> mailing lists.
>
> Agreed
>
>> Yes ion will make a good HD front end. But I fear 0.22 is a way off,
>> there are very major chages (to qt4, new UI engine as well as all the
>> vdpau and hdpvr stuff)
>
> I have a feeling it's not as far off as you might think, the devs are making
> their way through things quite well. It certainly is a release with some big
> changes though.

Which may mean 0.22.1 will be safer!

Still battling here in my mind about whether to stick with mythbuntu
or go back to knoppmyth.