Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-14 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:02:40 -0400 Lucien D. wrote: Little update on what I said about the VIA mini-itx boards. Been looking at them a little. Thie via EPIA SP, one of their newest boards has a graphic processor with integrated MPEG-2 decoder and MPEG-4 accelerator, not

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/13/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 10:34 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On Apr 12, 2005 10:01 AM, Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a good starting reference that might help: http://www.2cpu.com/articles/113_1.html Dave Thanks Dave.

RE: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-14 Thread Dave Nebinger
Little update on what I said about the VIA mini-itx boards. Been looking at them a little. Thie via EPIA SP, one of their newest boards has a graphic processor with integrated MPEG-2 decoder and MPEG-4 accelerator, not 100% sure what that is.

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/13/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 18:02 -0400, Lucien D. wrote: Little update on what I said about the VIA mini-itx boards. Been looking at them a little. Thie via EPIA SP, one of their newest boards has a graphic processor with integrated MPEG-2

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
Yuo know, I just *LOVE* the idea of Xboxs running Linux -- remember who they came from? Payback's a [deleted]. *very* evil grin! rgh. still grinning! Mark Knecht wrote: snip 2) In parallel look at whether to do a dedicated recorder (vs. using an existing machine) and look at how to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 13:30 +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: from what i heard (an i have been a Mini-Itx Follower for over 5 years now) is that Via had just a few days ago released all their drivers for the Mini-ITX chipsets under open source licenses (including the graphics acceleration)

RE: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
Here's a good starting reference that might help: http://www.2cpu.com/articles/113_1.html Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-12 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Last I want to be able to record and distribute TV on the network and need some pointers as to both hardware and software. A lot of people like MythTV (mythtv.org) - ebuilds exist. It has a client-server architecture so you can have less powerful setop

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Apr 12, 2005 9:05 AM, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Last I want to be able to record and distribute TV on the network and need some pointers as to both hardware and software. A lot of people like MythTV (mythtv.org) - ebuilds exist. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Apr 12, 2005 11:40 AM, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't it true though that the X-Box requires a hardware modification (like soldering in a new BIOS or something) in order to run Linux? Or is this no longer true? Yes, that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-12 Thread michael
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: On Apr 12, 2005 11:40 AM, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't it true though that the X-Box requires a hardware modification (like soldering in a new BIOS or something) in order to run Linux? Or is this no

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-12 Thread Mark Knecht
Michael, I'm being careful as I don't want to hurt my kid's XBox but apparently Dynebolics has a LiveCD that boots on XBox. I'm downloading it and intended to try booting it today or tomorrow and see what happens. If I could use that for playing PVR recorded video it would be great as the thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-12 Thread michael
Thanks Mark - I look forward to hearing your review. I'm almost tempted to run out right now (perhaps it's good that my lunch break has already passed) and buy an xbox! If I do anything, I will certainly post what I learn here as well. M On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Michael, I'm being