> I am currently using minimyth on an EPIA-M as my frontend, and it > generally works really well. However the connection to my TV is only > Composite-out so the quality is not too hot (my TV doesn't do S-Video). > > I do have an Xbox running XBMC connected to my TV via SCART and the > quality when playing videos is great so I'd like to investigate the > possibility of using it as my front end. Of course another benefit of > this would be that I get remote control functionality for free, as I'm > using a wireless keyboard at the moment. > > However, most of the information I've found on the web is out of date, > and the instructions at http://bit.blkbk.com/ refer to Xebian 1.0.3 > which I cannot locate at all. > > So with this in mind, can anyone share their experiences of setting this > up? Can the xbox hardware handle the load? My back end is saving the DVB > transport stream straight to disk and i'm not transcoding anything. > > Pros / Cons?
Lots on this in the archives so I'm not going to go into much detail other than to say that another option to xebian is xbmcmythtv which is a python script based GUI front end which runs in Xbox Media Centre. Find it at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128346 One of the big advantages of this solution is that you don't have to boot into Linux so startup times are a _lot_ quicker, plus it's probably a bit easier to configure as it's just a few settings screens - you don't have to worry about setting up a whole linux OS etc. Downside is that the functionality is not as rich and you have to download a patched mplayer to play files transcoded to MPEG4. Regards, Phill _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
