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 > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users --
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