[mythtv-users] pcHDTV 3000

H P Ladds householdwords at gmail.com
Sun Feb 5 16:42:41 UTC 2006


Yan,

PocketMyth or KeychainMyth wow! -- especially if you were to use both the
Kdrives I found in researching your project:

http://www.kdrive.com/
http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/kdrive.html

I'd recommend pursuing the needed Qt help on the mythtv-dev at mythtv.org list.

HTH,
Preston

On 2/5/06, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
>
> H P Ladds wrote:
>
> > Yan,
> >
> > We seem to be working on similar projects -- the main difference --
> > you succeed.
> >
> > I tried to get a dual processor / bt878 system working, but failed.
> > I'm relatively confident that a firmware update would fix what ails
> > me, and was working on the updates when my HD-3000 arrived, and I have
> > a Asus AV8, AMD 64 3500+, 1 gig machine for installation.
> >
> > Here's what I've found thus far about pchdtv howtos:
> >
> > Most on point:
> > http://www.linuxis.us/linux/media/howto/pchdtv/
> > http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DigitalTelevisionDVB
>
> Thanks.  I'm new to the world of HDTV/Myth (I've been using Myth 'out of
> the box' and this semi-involved setup is new to me)....
>
> >
> > General:
> > http://www.mythtv.org/docs/
> >
> > What distro do you prefer?
>
>
> Right now my backend is on a FC2 server, and the frontends are
> KnoppMyth....  I've been thinking of developing a Myth distro (more for
> kicks than anything else) - based on busybox (since Myth is really a
> single user type app anyway), and just throwing in only those things you
> need.  Sort of a KnoppMyth / LFS type of thing.  Base it on Kdrive
> instead of full-blown X.  If I could find a Qt developer willing to work
> on this, I'd be willing to try it on Qt/Embedded, and run it straight on
> an accelerated framebuffer with no X at all....  Build a cross-tool
> chain for it, and then writing some automated scripts so it builds
> specifically for your architecture/CPU.  I bet you could fit the whole
> thing on a smallish flash card < 64 MB, set up the root to be read only,
> and run with no local drive at all - and no noise...
>
> Any takers/interest?  :-)
>
> --Yan
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