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<blockquote data-quote="CCob" data-source="post: 692466" data-attributes="member: 84421">I have been using MediaPortal now for around 2 years and love it's feature set.&nbsp; After reading this post though I thought I would give XBMC a try too.&nbsp; I must say in terms of speed and responsiveness XBMC wins hands down.&nbsp; Navigating menus is fluid and fast, no halt or delays like I get with MP.&nbsp; Playback of video was impressive, almost instant compared to the 3-4 seconds or so for MP for the same video.&nbsp; Fast Fwd and Rwd work correctly too as opposed to the only 4x or less working correctly on MP, most peoples comments to this seem to suggest using skip (which I am forced to use on MP) but my preference is to see the video whilst Fwd/Rwd is in action so that I know when to resume the video.I only use TVSeries and MovingPictures (appart from LiveTV/Recording) which XBMC could replace quite easily with almost the same feature set.&nbsp; The big thing that's missing from XBMC is full PVR support, and TVServer is excellent so using XBMC as the PVR client would be a great feature (still in development).All in all MediaPortal is an excellent piece of software and a toy tinkers dream, for me the only think that lets it down is the responsiveness/hang that occurs quite regularly for me when using the client.Just my two cents</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CCob, post: 692466, member: 84421"] I have been using MediaPortal now for around 2 years and love it's feature set. After reading this post though I thought I would give XBMC a try too. I must say in terms of speed and responsiveness XBMC wins hands down. Navigating menus is fluid and fast, no halt or delays like I get with MP. Playback of video was impressive, almost instant compared to the 3-4 seconds or so for MP for the same video. Fast Fwd and Rwd work correctly too as opposed to the only 4x or less working correctly on MP, most peoples comments to this seem to suggest using skip (which I am forced to use on MP) but my preference is to see the video whilst Fwd/Rwd is in action so that I know when to resume the video. I only use TVSeries and MovingPictures (appart from LiveTV/Recording) which XBMC could replace quite easily with almost the same feature set. The big thing that's missing from XBMC is full PVR support, and TVServer is excellent so using XBMC as the PVR client would be a great feature (still in development). All in all MediaPortal is an excellent piece of software and a toy tinkers dream, for me the only think that lets it down is the responsiveness/hang that occurs quite regularly for me when using the client. Just my two cents [/QUOTE]

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