[Blog] MP2 development progress (2 Viewers)

[JoeSmith]

personally i would prefer a better MPII more than vista support.
The question is : where is vista having problems ? is it something that would influence the core of mp (server,..) or something like dxva, graphics stuff.
The "core" has to be as stable as possible and if that means that vista support has to be cut ...

I would really be interesting to hear about the problems of vista (maybe even xp).

Maybe some features (depending of whats "wrong" in vista) just have to be cut. Not everyone needs tv or music or whatever...

 

[tourettes]

personally i would prefer a better MPII more than vista support.
The question is : where is vista having problems ? is it something that would influence the core of mp (server,..) or something like dxva, graphics stuff.
The "core" has to be as stable as possible and if that means that vista support has to be cut ...

I would really be interesting to hear about the problems of vista (maybe even xp).

Maybe some features (depending of whats "wrong" in vista) just have to be cut. Not everyone needs tv or music or whatever...

Windows 7 has at least few interesting features

• Much better Media Foundation support (if we decide to use MF instead of DirectShow)
• Support for bitstreaming Blu-ray (and HD DVD) audio formats (althou it requires custom audio renderer)
• DXVA HD (havent looked more close in detail what it adds to DXVA 2.0)
• Lot of impromevents in media playback (but these itself aren't causing a non-compatibility with Vista)

Propably something is missing, but atleast those are valid ones. But we haven't yet decided if those are enough big issues (need workarounds) for Vista.

 

[Cressari]

discussion is a little bit strange
for those that not wanna change to Win 7, there is a wonderfull product, thats running very very good, its name is MediaPortal1!
Dont know much about coding, but i can imagine that it makes the things very much better to code for one OS and not for 2 or 3.
Win7 is the prommising future, XP is Methusalem and Vista is sent direct from hell, forget it.

Sorry for my bad english and the bottle Baileys i drunk this evening

Cheers // cress

 

[SpudR]

Just go for Windows 7 IMHO - Vista sucks bigtime.
For those who can't / won't upgrade, use MP 1...

I too have spent AGES on getting XP fast and stable, but am more than willing to go Win7 for MP2

Take time and get it right from the beginning - The MS policy of releasing unfinished software will kill them (eventually )

 

[Dr Tone]

Not everybody can afford buying a new license just for a HTPC

If they can't, then MP1 is for them.

 

[kiwijunglist]

yea my vote would be to skip xp+vista too and just focus on windows 7

 

[corvy]

+1 win7

 

[Damandan]

Go for Windows 7 only!

Better have 1 OS fully supported with no limitation or concessions in the code and add OS support for newer versions of windows as time passes.

 

[hardcorehire]

If I have to upgrade I would rather upgrade to Win7 then vista. I guess I am plus one for win7 only if there are big advantages over mp I it is going to cost substantial money to convert my 6 computers to win7 from XP. Any feature list of MPII over MPI.

Thanks as always for great work!!!

 

[hulkhaugen]

XP is old fashion trash. Go for Win7. Those who insist on using Vista probably won't have many difficulties to make it work anyway...