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

Scott Blomfield ScottB at Cavps.com
Wed Jul 16 14:34:29 EDT 2003


Complete idiot question: Is it expandable via a PCI slot? If so, could
you use a hardware encoder ala Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250? This would
eliminate the encode step, if it could cope with MPEG2 decoding.

-----Original Message-----
From: H Brett Bolen [mailto:brettb at trilug.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 12:59 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] feasibility of XBOX as a backend AND
frontend

H Brett Bolen wrote:


> 
>> 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.
>>
>>

  so it would probably encode at 480x240 fine, decode fine, but live
  playback ( simutaneous encode and decode) would probably suck.

  anybody have any data points?

  b





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