In response to question (4), people have had good luck using an XBox as
a front end. Total cost would probably be around $200-$250-- and it's
very small!
- Mark
Donavan Stanley wrote:
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:39:41 -0500, James Harrell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2) Portions of screen not visible: Whether I run in a window
or full screen on my monitor or X through the TV OUT, the
window is too small. Some configuration screens are chopped
to the point that I can't even see the "Back/Next" buttons.
I think this is something about overscan, but can't find
how to fix this. Recommendations? Note: screen resolution
from Q1 doesn't seem to change this behavior.
Adjust your GUI size to compensate for the overscan. You'll find it
in the display settings.
3) Button Text chopped off: The text in the buttons seems to
be larger than the button display area. Any letter such
as 'j' or 'y' isn't displayed fully (the lower half of
the letter is chopped off). How do I fix this?
Make sure you're running at 100dpi. Themes are deisgned for an
800x600 screen at 100dpi.
1) Programming Guide: Seems it's only useful for scheduling
recordings rather than channel-surfing. I'd like to find
a TV show in the guide, and click "OK" to watch it live.
Is this not supported?
No but you can have the system display the EPG immediatly on entering live
TV.
2) If I hook up my (external) DVD player to the s-video & audio
in of my PVR350, how do I add a "button" to the frontend
to switch from TV to DVD input mode?
See keys.txt.
3) Front-end on separate box: Can I stream the audio & video
in raw format rather than setup file sharing?
You can use the dsmyth filters but why bother?
1) Anyone sell a "myth-frontent" embedded-style box? ie: Something
like a nice little Via-EPIA with a PVR150, or some other cool
little device? I've considered just buying parts and making
one, doesn't seem I can do this for under $400 though.
Why bother with an Epia? Why not grab a cheap nForce2 board and stick
an AMD CPU on it? You can put together an entire frontend for around
$200 sans case.
2) Anyone aware of other very-low-cost off-the-shelf hardware
(preferably with a hardware decoder) that would make a good
mythfrontend? I've seen some references saying an old Tivo
or ReplayTV can't be used for this... but surely it's possible! :)
No it's not period end of story.
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