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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 5332">My 2c (in defence of Meedio):I have to say that I spent a lot of time tracking development of Meedio and in my opinion, they are very competitive, I guess they are more suited for my purposes than MP. There are three reasons I am trying to switch to MP - one is that I like open source in general, second, I like to be able to recompile my own builds and play with things, and third - I cannot get Meedio to display Unicode (waiting for months) whilst I got MP working with Unicode in 4 hours by making some patches and recompiling it. (I guess it is a derivative of the first two reasons)But, for a regular Joe User, who does not know C#, who does not care about non-latin languages and who has no idea that TV channels have frequences, Meedio is better. Especially since Meedio is not that resource-hungry as MP (I am doubling the memory and ugrading my video card to play with MP - more than twice the price of Meedio). Meedio is more stable, sets up easier (in US - their target market) and it has a lot of plugins to meet various user needs. By the way, everyone who contributed to myHTPC/Meedio in some way, either by writing some pluings, docs or beta testing, got their Meedio licenses for free, which is fair in a way. And they are just 3 developers and a couple of management guys, not a big company at all.I am just trying to say that MP is not killing the industry, no way. May be in a year, but then &quot;proprietory&quot; guys will have secured agreements with OEMs and will have another source of revenue or something like it.Disclaimer: I do not work for M$, Enron, Meedio, &lt;insert your favorite evil company here&gt;, I work for a small startup trying to make its way in a completely different industry, and we use (and contribute to) open-source extensively.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 5332"] My 2c (in defence of Meedio): I have to say that I spent a lot of time tracking development of Meedio and in my opinion, they are very competitive, I guess they are more suited for my purposes than MP. There are three reasons I am trying to switch to MP - one is that I like open source in general, second, I like to be able to recompile my own builds and play with things, and third - I cannot get Meedio to display Unicode (waiting for months) whilst I got MP working with Unicode in 4 hours by making some patches and recompiling it. (I guess it is a derivative of the first two reasons) But, for a regular Joe User, who does not know C#, who does not care about non-latin languages and who has no idea that TV channels have frequences, Meedio is better. Especially since Meedio is not that resource-hungry as MP (I am doubling the memory and ugrading my video card to play with MP - more than twice the price of Meedio). Meedio is more stable, sets up easier (in US - their target market) and it has a lot of plugins to meet various user needs. By the way, everyone who contributed to myHTPC/Meedio in some way, either by writing some pluings, docs or beta testing, got their Meedio licenses for free, which is fair in a way. And they are just 3 developers and a couple of management guys, not a big company at all. I am just trying to say that MP is not killing the industry, no way. May be in a year, but then "proprietory" guys will have secured agreements with OEMs and will have another source of revenue or something like it. Disclaimer: I do not work for M$, Enron, Meedio, <insert your favorite evil company here>, I work for a small startup trying to make its way in a completely different industry, and we use (and contribute to) open-source extensively. [/QUOTE]

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