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<blockquote data-quote="ziphnor" data-source="post: 234672" data-attributes="member: 14215">No, because most of them don't actually need the features that the PE system offers!Well a lot of MediaPortal WILL be tied to a single PC. Its no use bringing my channel list for my cable TV at home to say a holiday home with satellite TV. Its also pretty hard to know in advance what tuner drivers to add, there are quite alot you know.A good point, but still something you will only use once, no reason to be part of a default install.Can it run on non-x86 hardware? You can also install a normal windows installation on a MAC.Look, as i have said quite a few times, i agree that it would be great to have this support. I just dont think it has to be part of the main distribution of MP. No-one here is opposed to the idea. I dont understand why you are so obsessed with making it part of the default MP installation?I have used nlite once to create a windows CD with some extra drivers.So it would be possible to do this in such a way that people download an install cd creator program which will ask them for a Windows CD (because we certainly cant go around distributing Windows!) and then perhaps burn a CD for them that they can just pop into their HTPC for an unattended install containing everything needed for MP(all the right windows patches, DirectShow stuff and tuner drivers)? Something like that would be really great.I hope that despite the discussion about when it should be installed, you will want to work on the above stuff, as it would be very nice to have. Perhaps you should try to convince us to put it into the default install by developing it, and then we can see how useful we find it in practice.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ziphnor, post: 234672, member: 14215"] No, because most of them don't actually need the features that the PE system offers! Well a lot of MediaPortal WILL be tied to a single PC. Its no use bringing my channel list for my cable TV at home to say a holiday home with satellite TV. Its also pretty hard to know in advance what tuner drivers to add, there are quite alot you know. A good point, but still something you will only use once, no reason to be part of a default install. Can it run on non-x86 hardware? You can also install a normal windows installation on a MAC. Look, as i have said quite a few times, i agree that it would be great to have this support. I just dont think it has to be part of the main distribution of MP. No-one here is opposed to the idea. I dont understand why you are so obsessed with making it part of the default MP installation? I have used nlite once to create a windows CD with some extra drivers. So it would be possible to do this in such a way that people download an install cd creator program which will ask them for a Windows CD (because we certainly cant go around distributing Windows!) and then perhaps burn a CD for them that they can just pop into their HTPC for an unattended install containing everything needed for MP(all the right windows patches, DirectShow stuff and tuner drivers)? Something like that would be really great. I hope that despite the discussion about when it should be installed, you will want to work on the above stuff, as it would be very nice to have. Perhaps you should try to convince us to put it into the default install by developing it, and then we can see how useful we find it in practice. [/QUOTE]

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