[mythtv] Crazy Question?

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Check out http://dreamix.sourceforge.net for an XBox Linux PVR, not sure if it
is free or not.

There is a Linux USB MPEG2 capture device driver that has incomplete driver 
support.

IMHO, an XBox seems like a great Myth FrontEnd.

> 
> The question is can Linux that running on Tivo or Replay take advantage 
> of the hardware  that is on these machines? If not, you're just using a 
> 50Mhz PPC (or whatever Replay uses) to make a software PVR.
> 
> What about XBox Linux?  That would certainly have the specs.  Could a 
> USB Video For Linux compatible tuner be used?  That might be the 
> solution for this.  With reports that Microsoft loses money on XBoxes, 
> you could actually kill 2 birds with 1 stone by running MythTV on an 
> XBox.
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 09:19  PM, Jeff McDonald wrote:
> 
> > Tivo runs linux as well.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net
> > [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of Jonathan Oexner
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 9:12 PM
> > To: Development of mythtv
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv] Crazy Question?
> >
> >
> > Dude, just get a ReplayTV:
> > http://www.replaytv.com/video/replaytv5000/replaytv_5000_tech.asp
> > Sampe price ($200) and runs Linux anyway, so you know the hardware's
> > supported.
> >
> > Michael Stearne wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 07:14  PM, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 05:51:13PM -0600, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 02:24:05PM -0800, usenet at wingert.org wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Running MythTV on TiVo would suck.  Its a 50 MHz PPC processor with
> >>>>> 64 MB of RAM.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Only if one were stupid enough to use software video compression on
> >>>> a box
> >>>> that has hardware compression available.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> s/stupid enough/only able/
> >>>
> >>
> >> Haha
> >>
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