[mythtv] Crazy Question?

[Michael Stearne]

On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 10:14  PM, usenet at wingert.org wrote:

> Check out http://dreamix.sourceforge.net for an XBox Linux PVR, not 
> sure if it
> is free or not.
>

Not really sure it's Linux either.  It says it uses the "Linux mplayer" 
but Linux is third on the list of supporting OSes.  So maybe it's using 
a Windows port of mplayer.   Regardless, it's not Free and I'd rather 
put some support behind this project.

> There is a Linux USB MPEG2 capture device driver that has incomplete 
> driver
> support.
>

What about just a regular USB capture device?

> IMHO, an XBox seems like a great Myth FrontEnd.

Me too.  Cheap and should be powerful enough.

Michael


>
>>
>> The question is can Linux that running on Tivo or Replay take 
>> advantage
>> of the hardware  that is on these machines? If not, you're just using 
>> a
>> 50Mhz PPC (or whatever Replay uses) to make a software PVR.
>>
>> What about XBox Linux?  That would certainly have the specs.  Could a
>> USB Video For Linux compatible tuner be used?  That might be the
>> solution for this.  With reports that Microsoft loses money on XBoxes,
>> you could actually kill 2 birds with 1 stone by running MythTV on an
>> XBox.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 09:19  PM, Jeff McDonald wrote:
>>
>>> Tivo runs linux as well.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net
>>> [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of Jonathan Oexner
>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 9:12 PM
>>> To: Development of mythtv
>>> Subject: Re: [mythtv] Crazy Question?
>>>
>>>
>>> Dude, just get a ReplayTV:
>>> http://www.replaytv.com/video/replaytv5000/replaytv_5000_tech.asp
>>> Sampe price ($200) and runs Linux anyway, so you know the hardware's
>>> supported.
>>>
>>> Michael Stearne wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 07:14  PM, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 05:51:13PM -0600, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 02:24:05PM -0800, usenet at wingert.org 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Running MythTV on TiVo would suck.  Its a 50 MHz PPC processor 
>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>> 64 MB of RAM.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Only if one were stupid enough to use software video compression 
>>>>>> on
>>>>>> a box
>>>>>> that has hardware compression available.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> s/stupid enough/only able/
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Haha
>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>  - mdz
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