[mythtv-users] Babelbox: A potentially useful new low-cost frontend?

[Daniel Walton]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, David Whyte wrote:

> On 8/16/06, Robert Johnston <anaerin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/15/06, Luke Rosenthal <mythtv at harderstuff.net> wrote:
> > > While we're on the topic of Myth on Xbox running slowly, how slow is
> > > slowly?  Can the Xbox have more ram installed?
> >
> > I've got an XBox here running MythFrontend on Xebian 1.1.4, and it
> > runs just fine.
> >
> > Admittedly, it's using the QT painter (As the driver doesn't support
> > OpenGL) which makes it a fair bit slower, but once it's got enough of
> > a buffer streaming the video from the backend (Which takes around a
> > second at the beginning of the file) you can play and seek around as
> > if it were local. It's not quite as fast as the local frontend on my
> > backend box, but it's close. The major delays are caused by heavy
> > network traffic (Opening "Recorded programs" (1.5 sec) or MythVideo (3
> > sec) are the main problem areas, and MythVideo I use the FileSystem
> > Gallery view, hence the slowness over the NFS link)
> >
>
>
> I second everything here.  Yes, there is a pause when you go to a
> recording, and when you exit playback, there is some work done to
> repaint the screen, but as for something to use to *watch* mythTV
> recordings, you can't beat it.  Although it is big and bulky and
> noisey if you don't change the fan. :)

Where can you buy a quiet fan for an xbox?  Mine is fairly noisy :(

Daniel