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On Dec 23, 2005, at 21.48, Matt Harris wrote:
I too had problems with getting mythtv xbox installed & running,
then I noticed that it required only a specific older version of
xebian. Once I used it with the older version, everything went
fine. Keep plugging, I think MythTV Xbox is the package to use.
It's older, and as such you also might have to use an older version
of the backend until you can get it running enough to upgrade it.
I can't remember for sure if I had to do that, since it has been
about 6 months since I put the xbox frontend together. That being
said, it is one of the best solutions if you're only doing standard
definition IMHO, since the xbox is a nice, fairly attractive, quiet
machine sitting in the AV rack.
Well, I'm not sure I'd like that whole "using an older version of the
backend" idea. I had enough annoyance getting my current back-end to
work. I am planning only Standard Def right now, so I'm not concerned
about that. As far as case and solution goes, I have no plans to use
anything other than my XBox as a front-end. It fits nicely next to
the VCR, and it already has a remote (no extra hardware to buy!)
There was nothing special that I remember of having to do to make
the xbox remote work. I do still need to change some of the buttom
mappings to my taste, but other than that it seems that it worked
right out of the box with the MythTV-Xbox package.
Cool. That's one of my main concerns. I used XBMC for ages with the
controller, and personally had no problems, but I know that if I'm
going to get the family to accept this project in their daily lives,
the remote would probably be important.
I should also say, in case it matters, that the xbox I used is a
permanently converted xbox; it will never play xbox games again...
I made it a dedicated linux machine.
Well, the XBox I'm working on now is not a dedicated machine, but
once I figure out how to make this one work, I plan to get a second
XBox exclusively for MythTV front-end duty.
If it helps, I might be able to make a file system dump or a big
tarball of my xbox frontend for you.
I suppose it could help, but I'm not sure it would. I'm assuming that
your XBox is hardmodded, and you've replaced the entire contents of
the hard disk. As such, it would be useless to me, as I have a
softmodded XBox.
For now, though, I think I'm going to try to build MythTV from scratch.
-Matt
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Hello. I've recently managed to successfully set-up a MythTV box
on an Intel Celeron 600 MHz box, with 256 MB of RAM (I plan to
expand this later) and a Hauppauge PVR-150. I'm running KnoppMyth
5A26 on the system. I never intended for this machine to act as
both front- end and back-end, so at the moment, I'm looking into
using my XBox as a front-end machine.
At the moment, I have four options available to me. To some
level, I've attempted all of them.
First, is the easiest: XBMC MythTV scripts. At the moment, I'm
hitting a brick wall with problems with the XBox communicating to
the MySQL server (some nondescript error). At the moment, this
could make a satisfactory stop-gap solution, but due to some of
the limitations, I'm not entirely sure this is the option I want
to use in the long run.
Second is the specialized copy of MythTV for XBox (at http://
bit.blkbk.com/). However, this project seems long abandoned, and
I've never been able to get the install script to work quite
right (even with editing the required Xebian version setting).
Third is the pre-assembled MythTV front-end Xebian disk image
(http:// thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3397792). I'm having
problems setting it up. The self-starting mythtv-setup seems to
kill X and restart after I specify a language. Though, something
tells me an X session over SSH is the option. I'm having problems
getting that to happen. This option is perfectly fine for me, but
I could use some help. The included information was... limited.
Fourth is installing MythTV from source. I suppose I could handle
this, but any tips or hints with getting the XBox remote to
function properly (is this even an issue at this point?) or
tracking down the right debs or things like that would be
appreciated.
Out of all of those, does anyone have advice or suggestions on
which one to go with, or how to make one of them work?
Thanks for all your help!
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