On 5/10/05, Jacques Poulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How about the real MythTV front end (the Linux one) for the Xbox ? What are > its strengths and weaknesses ? > > Thanks for your feedback. >
One obvious weakness I've run into on the XBox is that it's getting very hard to make it work without using hacked software. In the retail chain here in California you can only buy the latest model which is 1.6(b). To use this version you first need to do chip mods to the machine. It wasn't too difficult for me to find someone to do that. The cost was very mild. The chip mod is to hold an alternative BIOS so that the machine can boot to an alternative OS. (Linux in this case.) The preferred alternative BIOS would be Cromwell, but the Cromwell BIOS is not supporting this version of the XBox at this time so I'm stuck. [RANT] An alternative would be to use a hacked BIOS (EvolutionX or others) but I don't really like that idea so I've pretty much given up on making this XBox useful in the short term. Hacked BIOS's are great for kids playing games but it's my opinion, and only my opinion, that adults shouldn't go down that path. I *think* you could make a new XBox work with EvoX but I decided not to spend my time on it and am now looking into some sort of mini/micro-ATX platform as a quiet frontend only machine.[/RANT] Anyway, be careful about just buying an XBox new. If you want to use Cromwell find a 1.4 or earlier. Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
