Yeah, I was happy to learn that RCN Boston doesn't use 5C encryption. I *knew* there was some reason I went with them over Comcast...<br><br>Wow, the Roku looks like a pretty sweet little box. Could I put a different Linux distro on it if I wanted, or would I have to stick with what came with it?
<br><br>For that matter, why is it such a PITA to run mythfrontend on it that it requires a separate project? I mean, you had to kinda-sorta hack your XBox to get it to do something interesting, but the Roku comes right out and says it's a Linux box.
<br><br>Sorry, never hurts to be skeptical. ;)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/10/06,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Adeff</b> <<a href="mailto:adeffs@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">adeffs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 15:13, Michael T. Dean wrote:<br>> Jonathan Oexner wrote:<br>> > Sorry to semi-hijack, but I'm in a kinda similar situation. I've got<br>> > an Athlon XP 1800+ box with 3/4 gig of memory and a 4x AGP slot.
<br>> > Right now I'm just using it as a backend to capture SD via a PVR-250<br>> > card. I'm using an XBox as a remote frontend, via a component video<br>> > adapter hooked up to my HD TV. Works like a charm, couldn't be
<br>> > happier, but...<br>> ><br>> > At the end of the month I'll be getting a DTC-62xx (I think) from RCN<br>> > here in Boston. I'd like to capture via the Firewire port and watch<br>> > it on my TV, but I understand that the XBox probably doesn't have the
<br>> > horsepower to decode and display a 1080i signal. Is there a video<br>> > card with component video outputs that I can drop into the 4x AGP slot<br>> > on my mobo that will be able to render a 1080i video stream?
<br>> ><br>> > I've heard people mention that some Nvidia 6200-based cards come with<br>> > a component-out dongle and they work well for HD video, but all the<br>> > cards I've seen say AGP 8x (or PCI-e). Would an AGP 8x Nvidia 6200
<br>> > card even work in a 4x AGP slot, or would the video kinda suck if the<br>> > card stepped itself down to AGP 4x?<br>><br>> The 1800+ will most likely be a problem (although you might be able to<br>
> make it work with XvMC, it will be so close to the edge it will probably<br>> still be annoying), so you might want to just create a new dedicated<br>> frontend. That would allow you to get a processor that will be able to
<br>> decode the video as well as a MB with an AGP 8X (or PCI-E) slot.<br>> Unfortunately, that will be more expensive than just dropping a video<br>> card in the existing backend...<br>><br>> Mike<br><br>
Another option is, if you only use mpeg2 is to buy a Roku and install MythRoku
<br>on it as a front end. All the firewire transfers from the cablebox will be in<br>mpeg2, so original recordings won't be a problem, its any transcodes, etc you<br>might have.<br><br>The Roku can be had for ~$300.<br><br>
You might also want to get a couple DCT's from RCN, from what I understand,<br>RCN in Boston doesn't enable 5C.<br><br>--<br>Steve<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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