You could probably run the backend and the frontend on the Xbox, but for most purposes, it's just not practical.
Here are the problems with the XBox as an all-in-one solution: 1. CPU speed. It's only a 733MHz machine, it'll never handle both full frontend and backend duties. Watching LiveTV had the CPU going up to 75% used. 2. RAM - only 64MB (although you can, on some boards, put in another 64MB - I'm considering this myself). During regular MythTV usage (i.e. watching a recording, or LiveTV, or maybe even a DVD) you'll definitely hit swap. Just watching LiveTV, I checked my numbers, and RAM was full, and I was using about another 50MB of swap (at least). 3. The XBox is USB 1.1 only, plus there would have to be a Linux driver for the USB capture device that works under Xebian or GentooX (I'm not saying that there isn't, I just haven't looked because I figure it's crazy to try and do everything in the XBox). 4. Lack of HD space for recordings - this can be fixed, as I have a 100GB hard drive in my XBox, but I still store recordings over the network. Also, depending on the hardware revision of the XBox that you get, you might get a noisy fan... I've found a way to fix that, I'm just no so sure I want to get that drastic with the hardware mods yet. ;) If you just want a portable media player and don't care about the PVR functionality (which is really MythTV's bread and butter), then check out XBox Media Center. From the screenshots and text I've seen about it, it's supposedly very good at being a media player. It will, however, be somewhat difficult to find a binary download, although the source code is freely available (XBMC uses the Microsoft XBox SDK, which is not legal to possess, unless you are a licensed Microsoft XBox developer, due to copyright). -- Joe --- nowhere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:mythtv-users- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Votour > > Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 10:29 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv > > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on XBox > > [snip] > > > > > No video card needs to be added to the XBox (one > > couldn't be anyway), but you'll definitely need > > another PC as a backend. > > Will the Xbox support installing a non-capture > backend on the system? I > am considering using it as a standalone video player > for my conversion > van... > > Thanks, > Eric > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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