<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jake Vickers</b> <<a href="mailto:jake@v2gnu.com">jake@v2gnu.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Does anyone out there have an XBox for a front end? I'm looking for<br>something quieter than the ML8000 I have in my bedroom now (okay, so the
<br>wife is) and read that MythTV ran on XBoxes and that they were<br>relatively quiet. Seems all the fanless Via boards really balk at<br>watching TV. I haven't owned a game system since Playstation came out so<br>I'm looking for someone to offer some tips. I've also read that MythTV
<br>doesn't run that nicely on the XBox, so I'd like to find out now if that<br>is so before I brave Ebay to buy one.<br>Can anyone out there offer some experiences up with the XBox?</blockquote>
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<div>I bought an X-box to use as a myth frontend from ebay. I did a soft-mod (Splinter Cell) and installed Linux without too much pain. I subsequently gave the x-box away. For me it was waaay too noisy (sounded like a small jet engine in the corner - it's orders of magnitude louder than a playstation) and I found it dog slow running mythfrontend . Using XBMC was much better - it was much more responsive, and could play back myth - but then I lost the fabulous mythfrontend interface. I've replaced it with a P4
2.8 laptop that had a broken screen (it's connected to a LCD TV) and I find it much, much better as a frontend. So - yes the X-Box works, but I wouldn't recommend it. You apparently can open it up and change the fans but I didn't bother. YMMV.
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