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<blockquote data-quote="joz" data-source="post: 700741" data-attributes="member: 70244"><p>Hi Simone,</p><p></p><p>First off it's not really fair to compair the two I think for the reason that I have tons of plugins installed on MP and only a couple on XBMC.</p><p>This was the hardest to leave behind, all this great functionality and tweakability MediaPortal offers but also brings a lot of let's say "third party" code into the whole thing. Plugin's crash and take everything with it. I know if I just strip it down a little I can have MP stable as well. </p><p></p><p>XBMC for me offers almost everything I needed out of the box. The skin looks really nice and works smooth.</p><p>I used StreamedMP as my default on MediaPortal and these guys are pushing it a little on the MP skin engine part resulting in heavy load. Now I know your saying pick a different skin, I know, that's not the point though. I like this skin, xbmc brings the same and even more awesome skins in a workable fashion.</p><p></p><p>Now my personal believe is that the XBMC team has been more focused on one certain aspect of being a piece of mediacenter software. MediaPortal is a bit different, having put much effort in the whole TV engine setup. </p><p>I have used the tv server in the past but not using it anymore and do not really have the need for it so that's no argument either for me.</p><p></p><p>What's also important for me is that I often leave my mediacenter software to for example start a browser or a game. XBMC is lightning fast when it comes to reopening when closed down in this fashion, MP takes a bit of time (around the 5 - 10 seconds, and that on a system running with an SSD). I have also experienced crashes or longer lagtimes in these situations or when returning from standby for example.</p><p></p><p>I had been wiating for the dharma release of xbmc to try it out again and see how it works out, so I did. Now I think I have all functionality I really need (which is not much when you break it down) which works smoothly, stable and also looks nice. So all that finally convinced me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joz, post: 700741, member: 70244"] Hi Simone, First off it's not really fair to compair the two I think for the reason that I have tons of plugins installed on MP and only a couple on XBMC. This was the hardest to leave behind, all this great functionality and tweakability MediaPortal offers but also brings a lot of let's say "third party" code into the whole thing. Plugin's crash and take everything with it. I know if I just strip it down a little I can have MP stable as well. XBMC for me offers almost everything I needed out of the box. The skin looks really nice and works smooth. I used StreamedMP as my default on MediaPortal and these guys are pushing it a little on the MP skin engine part resulting in heavy load. Now I know your saying pick a different skin, I know, that's not the point though. I like this skin, xbmc brings the same and even more awesome skins in a workable fashion. Now my personal believe is that the XBMC team has been more focused on one certain aspect of being a piece of mediacenter software. MediaPortal is a bit different, having put much effort in the whole TV engine setup. I have used the tv server in the past but not using it anymore and do not really have the need for it so that's no argument either for me. What's also important for me is that I often leave my mediacenter software to for example start a browser or a game. XBMC is lightning fast when it comes to reopening when closed down in this fashion, MP takes a bit of time (around the 5 - 10 seconds, and that on a system running with an SSD). I have also experienced crashes or longer lagtimes in these situations or when returning from standby for example. I had been wiating for the dharma release of xbmc to try it out again and see how it works out, so I did. Now I think I have all functionality I really need (which is not much when you break it down) which works smoothly, stable and also looks nice. So all that finally convinced me. [/QUOTE]
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