[mythtv-users] MythTV on XBox

[Jurgen Kramer]

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 10:52 +0100, Wouter Lagerweij wrote:
> (For some reason posting this went wrong, yesterday.
> Sorry if there are any double messages!)
> 
> On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 16:28 -0800, Joe Votour wrote:
> > > Hmmm... I'm interested... My crystal x-box is too
> > > noisy. I'm planning on
> > > slowing down the fan a bit, but if anyone knows a
> > > better way.
> > > 
> > If you flash a modified BIOS, you can change the fan
> > speed of the rear fan (although I've read that the
> > regular XBox BIOS already sets it to 20% of normal
> > speed).  However, I found that the GPU fan in the 1.0
> > XBox (which I have) is the noisy one by far, I just
> 
> Thanks, this is useful information! I have never run my xbox using 
> the regular MS bios, so it may be that I only have to change 
> a setting for my modchip bios to get it to quiet down!
> Since the Crystal xbox is a 1.6 model, it doesn't have a fan 
> on the GPU, so I won't have to try that hardware hack. 
> (Thank god! :-)
> 
> > > I've used xbmc for a while, and it works very well. 
> > > There's even work going on in the xbmx forums for a
> > > python script that
> > > can be used as a (limited) MythTV front-end.
> > > It allows one to schedule recordings, browse
> > > existing recordings, and
> > > even view them, as long as their in myth's mpeg2
> > > format. (no mplayer
> > > support for the mpeg1 and mpeg4 myth formats,
> > > unfortunately.)
> > > And lately, people have even been working on getting
> > > live tv working!
> > > (with the same mpeg2 caveat, so I haven't seen
> > > this...)
> > > 
> > This would be absolutely awesome.  Perhaps a stripped
> > down MythTV GUI that offers options that only really
> > apply to the XBox, such as watching TV/recordings,
> > DVD/VCD playback (if VCDs even work in your XBox,
> > CD-Rs won't in mine, for instance).  I use dual
> > PVR-250's, so I don't have a problem with the MPEG-2
> > restriction (although not everybody is equally
> > blessed).
> 
> The XBMC python script is now hosted on sourceforge ( 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmcmythtv ) so if you
> want to give it a shot, that the place to go.
> It's not very useful for me, yet, because of the mpeg2
> restriction, but I just saw that there now is a mythstreamtv 
> project, that might help out in that respect.

That looks very promising! I will give it a try. Thanks!

> Playing DVDs, CDs, or video files and such is not implemented in the
> myth script, since XBMC does those jobs very well on its own.
> 
> > One of these days I plan on making a stripped down
> > theme that still looks good, but helps out with memory
> > usage on the XBox for MythTV...  Well, I keep telling
> > myself that, maybe I'll get to it one of these days. 
> > ;)  In the case of the XBox, MythTV without Linux
> > would really be good, if nothing else, but to save
> > some RAM and maybe eliminate the hard drive swapping
> > activity.  But, unfortunately, a huge task.
> 
> That might be nice. If I'm ever going to really use myth on linux on the xbox,
> I'm going to at least flash a bios so it boots linux directly. At the
> moment the boot time is my main reason for preferring a xbmc solution.
> 
> Wouter
> 
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