[mythtv-users] feasibility of XBOX as a backend AND frontend

[jim at fuckerz.net]

Yes.. the Xbox CPU is a bit strange.. it's basically a celeron with a P3
bus speed.. or a P3 with celeron cache size depending on how you look at
it. Anyway it's a 733Mhz P3 core with 133Mhz FSB and 128k of cache.


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
>> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of jim at fuckerz.net
>> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 8:43 AM
>> To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
>> Subject: [mythtv-users] feasibility of XBOX as a backend AND frontend
>>
>>
>> In my mind the Uber-Solution would be running an Xbox as both front
>> and back end for mythtv. I've seen a brief mention of this on the
>> archive but I was unable to determin if anyone had actually done it.
>> I've just found MythTV and it looks great!
>>
>> Seems to me this should be workable. There are Linux drivers for the
>> USB based WinTV tuner. And of course the Xbox supports USB. The only
>> question is if the Xbox is fast enough to handle encoding... The WinTV
>> device does not do any compression or encoding as far AFIK.
>>
>> If this could be made to work it would be awesome. You'd have an
>> all-in-one box that handles pretty much EVERY entertainment function,
>> all wrapped up in a CHEAP, small, quiet container.
>>
>> I don't currently own an Xbox or a WinTV, but I'll run out and buy
>> them both if my research indicates that this might work!
>>
>> Anyone have any info on this?
>
> Well, I know the Xbox is Celeron-based, but what speed does it run at?
> It'd probably have to be 1GHz or more to get reasonable performance for
> a combined frontend/backend.
>
> -JAC
>
> PS- Interesting domain name you have...
>
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