[mythtv-users] Xbox Versions
Phill Edwards
philledwards at gmail.com
Fri May 6 04:33:17 UTC 2005
> I've been looking for an economical way of setting up a couple
> frontends. I currently run a combo be/fe which has served me well for
> over a year. I though perhaps getting a couple used XBoxes would be a
> decent route. I've been skimming the archives and one thing that keeps
> popping up is a discussion/mention of versioning on the XBox. What is
> the easiest version of the XBox to mod to allow it to run mythtv? Does
> it require a hardware modification? How do the xboxes perform
> displaying SD TV encoded at 480x480? Any comments? Thanks for the feed
> back.
I have an old 1.0 or 1.1 vsn Xbox and have soft-modded it. I instaled
Xbox Media Centre (XBMC) and the mythtv python scripts. Sadly this
doesn't work because the mplayer that comes with XBMC doesn't support
MPEG4 which is the format of my recordings. However, I'm soon to start
using MPEG2 from a new digital TV card on my backend so this should
solve that. The python scripts are good because you don't have to wait
for linux to boot - you get the immediate boot ups of a normal Xbox.
They're limited in functionality, however. To investigate further
search for xbmcmythtv on Google.
Regards,
Phill
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