<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 5, 2007, at 5:19 PM, Tortise wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"><FONT size="2">Thinking some more as TiVo runs linux, perhaps the simplest way to do this might be to install and run the MythTV frontend on TiVo's already functioning linux?</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">Anyone got any thoughts about this?</FONT><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT></DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Even if you could get a generic kernel running your problem would be the proprietary video hardware, you would not be able to use it.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So you'd have to somehow install video capture/output devices on a board that has no industry-standard slots to connect them to. USB 1.1 would not be of much help even if you could get it working. It's also not a standard CPU so you'd have to deal with getting drivers working on the MIPS or Power CPU, which does not have nearly enough oomph to do what it would have to do without the help of the specialized chips.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The best bet would be to try and put a conventional motherboard into the case, but the dimensions are not standard and the power supply would not be able to power the equipment involved.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I think you might be better off trying to turn it into a decorative planter by removing all those proprietary parts and filling the case with dirt.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It's just not worth it, though I certainly agree with you that it's a shame.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>