I'm trying to set up Video Conferencing from the US
with my family back in the UK and I'm trying to find
out how much success others have had with using
MythPhone to do video chat with people who use MS
Win98.
My family haven't even bought their webcam yet, and I
was pushing them to a Logitec
--- Richard Bronosky wrote:
I'm actually hoping to look into this solution to
create a semi-WAN
between my home and my in-laws home across the cul
de sac. If I can get
good enough speeds, I'm going to try to share my
MythTV backend with them.
Do you get Everybody Loves Raymond there?
I didn't realise that you could watch LiveTV with it.
To think that I went through all the trouble to get
Gentoo on my xBox. It was a good learning experience
though!
--- Michael Tiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, my bad. I should have provided a bit more
detail.
I have the mythtv
wrote:
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 09:31:00AM -0500, Victor
wrote:
I tried that... I originally put the swap on my
file server and didn't
use the harddrive once it booted into linux. The
NFS swap was
horrifically slow. I do not recommend it, however
if your harddrive has
a 10gig
The only variable is the name of the myth backend that
the xbox should connect to. Perhaps something could
be written which would send out a UDP request for all
known backends and then the user could select which
one to use from a list if there is more than one.
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On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 07:18:54AM -0800, Ben Dash
wrote:
I'm not sure what you'd gain by not using the hard
drive for swap, my swap file is just a 256MB file
on
hda50. The swap file doesn't effect the native
xBox
functions.
If I could use NFS for both root
, Nov 28, 2005 at 07:18:54AM -0800, Ben Dash
wrote:
I'm not sure what you'd gain by not using the hard
drive for swap, my swap file is just a 256MB file
on
hda50. The swap file doesn't effect the native
xBox
functions.
If I could use NFS for both root and swap (perhaps
to quiet
the fan down from 20%
all the way to 100%... you could play with it and
see if thats whats
causing the noise. The fan is hands down the loudest
component of the xbox.
Vic
Ben Dash wrote:
I know that the fan on my old xBox fan is a little
noisy and eventually I'll replace
--- Andrew Close wrote:
On 11/29/05, Ben Dash wrote:
snip /
I already have the 128MB RAM thanks to
xboxrepairguide.com and I was curious how well
you
box was working with just the 64MB, or are you
merely
talking about your future plans.
Ben,
did you purchase a new xbox mobo
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What am I doing wrong? Is there a special repo for
the xbox specific lirc?
I used standard Gentoo. I booted with the Gentoo's
xBox LiveDVD and emerged stage 2. I had a lot of
problems until I went to a 2.6 kernel and then
everything just fell into place. My final problem
--- Phill Edwards wrote:
Does anyone know why various keys seem to be
disabled
in mythbrowser? When I run the plugin to browse
the
web from inside mythfrontend the d key, for
example,
seems to remove a tab and so I can't type a d
into
any text boxes.
i opens a popup box asking
--- Joshua King wrote:
On 19/11/05 11:38 AM, Ben Dash wrote:
Could someone please send me a copy of the
lircd.conf
for the lirc_xboxusb driver?
Here's what I'm using, though from memory this came
from the Gentoo ebuild
so you should have it. Note that I'm using this on a
PC not an Xbox
Could someone please send me a copy of the lircd.conf
for the lirc_xboxusb driver?
I sounds like they're available in
remotes/xboxusb/lirc.conf.xboxusb in Fedora,
unfortunately, I'm using Gentoo and I can't find the
conf file anywhere.
I've performed a cat /dev/lirc0 and appear to get
output
Does anyone know why various keys seem to be disabled
in mythbrowser? When I run the plugin to browse the
web from inside mythfrontend the d key, for example,
seems to remove a tab and so I can't type a d into
any text boxes.
i opens a popup box asking to enter a URL
m opens a MythBrowser popup
I don't have /var/log/lircd either. I get some limited info from /var/log/messages. Interestingly, none of my other machines have /var/log/messages. Does anyone know how to turn this logging on?Marty Ravell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes /var/log/lircdHmmm. I do not have this file.I wonder if
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I have been getting an error on all my mythfrontends
from day one and I was wondering if there was
sometihng which I could do to prevent it.
Every time a new track starts in MythMusic I get this
error popup dialog:
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MythMusic has encountered the following error:
DecoderOgg: Error
I thought I had heard somewhere that mythburn was
evolving into a mythfrontend plugin. Is this true?
Just curious,
Thanks,
Ben
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Here's my xorg.conf from my Gentoo xBox, just in case
it's of any use, I'm using a Versapoint RF keyboard
and a 2.6 kernel, it all works great except for the
nagging problem with the remote control and the very
very slight underscan effect of the TV display. I
have 3 other frontends, 1 with a
Could someone please explain to me how overscan works?
I'm using the nv driver for my xBox and the top of the
displayed screen is a little narrower than the bottom,
i.e. the bottom reaches the screen edge and the top is
inset a little.
I'm thinking that I need to set some overscan settings
in
Could someone please explain how overscan is
configured with the nv xorg driver?
My TV Out is slightly more narrow at the top than at
the bottom. After hunting around for keystone
correction I have decided that I probably need to do
some degree of overscan. I'm currently using 640x480
NTSC.
I have noticed that my D and backspace keys are
not working in myth browser although they work fine in
the cosole window.
Have these keys been assigned as hotkeys for something
and, if so, does anyone know if there is a way that I
can chage that?
Thanks!
--- chris wrote:
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 08:36:09AM -0800, Ben Dash
wrote:
Could someone please explain to me how overscan
works?
There's two types of overscan...
I'm using the nv driver for my xBox and the top of
the
displayed screen is a little narrower than the
bottom,
i.e
--- Cory Papenfuss wrote:
Positioning problems are more properly fixed by
altering the modeline
timings to reduce the retrace delay.
Actually, they're more properly fixed by adjusting
the monitor/TV
so it doesn't overscan. Twiddling modelines is
band-aiding a broken
situation.
I think that I may need to tweak fbset as documented
here:
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/lofiversion/index.php/t377567.html
--- Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So are you saying that I should use something else
instead of 640x480? If so then what would you
suggest?
What
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--- Tom Lichti wrote:
Ben Dash wrote:
I hope that I can provide a silver lining to this
cloud. I have got my xBox running Gentoo with a
2.6
kernel and xOrg running as a stutter free
mythfrontend.
Any chance you could detail how you got to this
point? I am running 2.4
kernel
--- George Nassas wrote:
On 5-Nov-05, at 10:20 PM, Ben Dash wrote:
since I changed to a 2.6 kernel I get no errors
I'm running 2.4 because I read the 2.6 fatx driver
isn't quite ready
for prime time. Do you do any updating of the xbox's
filesystem while
you're in linux?
No. The only
--- David Whyte wrote:
On 11/6/05, Ben Dash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any advice?
I can play Std Def at no more than
20-30% CPU, and all I have is a sempron 2400.
My advice, use the nvidia drivers if you can.
Hardware MPEG 2 decoding is definitely the way to go
if it's an option. Since
root?
Did you use the nv Xorg driver?
Please let me know
Ben Dash wrote:
Could someone please share their fstab for their
diskless frontend that is working?
I found that my diskless xBox is stuttering a
little
although CPU usage is only ~50%. The 766mhz PIII
PVR250 backend is fine
--- George Nassas wrote:
On 5-Nov-05, at 7:48 PM, Ben Dash wrote:
Has anyone else managed to get their xBox working
as a totally stutter free Mythfrontend?
Yes. There is an initial hiccup when I start playing
any recording but
after that it's rock solid.
So it IS possible :-)
Are you
--- George Nassas wrote:
On 5-Nov-05, at 8:23 PM, Ben Dash wrote:
Are you running at 640x480 or did you cut the
resolution down?
640x480. It doesn't look as bad as I expected. Also,
during X startup
there are a bunch of messages in the log about how
it doesn't like
something about
Does anyone know if there is a setting to adjust for
the keystone effect in xorg.conf for the nv driver on
xBox?
I posted to xbox-linux-users but I was just curious if
anyone here knows...
Thanks!
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Thanks for the ideas so far, lsusb gives:
xbox ~ # lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID :
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04df:0020 Interlink Electronics
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 045e:0284 Microsoft Corp. Xbox
DVD Playback Kit
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0451:2046 Texas Instruments,
Inc. TUSB2046 Hub
Bus 001
Could someone please share their fstab for their
diskless frontend that is working?
I found that my diskless xBox is stuttering a little
although CPU usage is only ~50%. The 766mhz PIII
PVR250 backend is fine, and is able to broadcast
stutter free to my wife's 1Ghz PIII with only 0.3% CPU
usage
--- Chad wrote:
On 11/2/05, Mike Frisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:24:23PM +0100, Darksoul
wrote:
As much as I would like to see intense
transcoding and filtering support
provided by the GPU, most of those promises
(also NVidia promised GPU-based
encoding)
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--- Andrew Close [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/2/05, Ben Dash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip/
I'm using my xBox as a fully functional
mythfrontend,
except for the remote control which I can't seem
to
get working at the moment.
It was fairly easy using Gentoo, although I had a
near
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On 2-Nov-05, at 12:44 PM, Ben Dash wrote:
I'm using xorg on my xBox no problem.
With which video driver? nv or nvidia? I'm sticking
with xfree because
from a few of the other posters it sounds like you
can't get the nvidea
driver working with xorg.
I believe
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--- Tom Lichti wrote:
Ben Dash wrote:
xbox ~ # ls -la /dev/lir*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 61, 0 Nov 1 01:26
/dev/lirc0
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 01:26
/dev/lircd
Any ideas?
Could be a permissions problem on the lirc0 device.
I forget exactly
what machinations I had to go
--- Myth Lists wrote:
You can also run irw and press a few keys on the
remote to make sure
lirc is receiving the right ones.
I've been trying irw throughout the process. I get no
output from pressing the remote buttons. If I look at
/var/log/messages I can see the accepted new client
on
--- Michael T. Dean wrote:
Ben Dash wrote:
--- Myth Lists wrote:
You can also run irw and press a few keys on the
remote to make sure
lirc is receiving the right ones.
I've been trying irw throughout the process. I get
no
output from pressing the remote buttons. If I look
at
/var
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Unfortunately, although I'm sure I'm close, the
xBox
DVD remote
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to work for the xBox remote, is that
correct?
Nothing looks immediately obviously bad in dmesg.
Please let me know if you have any other ideas and
what info you'd like me to post.
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Dash wrote:
N0rm
I'm just finishing off a gentoo
Thanks! It worked great!
--- Bruce Markey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ben Dash wrote:
My TV provider has a habit of changing the channel
assignments. Recently channel 55 changed from
being
FitTV to being SciFi. Zap2it seems to be fully
aware
of this, however, the mythtv EPG hasn't
--- Myth Lists wrote:
Ben Dash wrote:
I try the ~/.mythtv/lircrc file and let you know.
I'm using the atiusb driver for lirc. I heard that
this was supposed to work for the xBox remote, is
that
correct?
Well, Xebian comes pre-configured with a kernel
module for myth. I've
tarr'd up
--- Myth Lists wrote:
Ben Dash wrote:
Thanks!
I don't think my lirc is at the point where I can
start configuring it for mythtv. I can't get it to
recognise anything from the remote with the irw
test
app yet.
I try the ~/.mythtv/lircrc file and let you know.
I'm using the atiusb
I did created the lirc device before starting lircd in
/etc/init.d/lircd:
mknod /dev/lirc0 c 61 0
chmod 0666 /dev/lirc0
Which seems to eliminate the previous error stating
that /dev/lirc0 didn't exist. Now /var/log/messages
just says that it accepted new client on /dev/lircd
and immediately
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--- Ben Giddings wrote:
Ben Dash wrote:
No, I was talking about this:
http://www.interlinkelectronics.com/products/retail/rfkeyboard.htm
Wow, $200 for a keyboard/pointer combo on a box I
don't plan to type on
very often? Sounds like a hard investment to
justify. Do you think
No, I was talking about this:
http://www.interlinkelectronics.com/products/retail/rfkeyboard.htm
and it turns out that it works fine after all. I
didn't have to do anything other than plug it in...
--- Scott Alfter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:08:39AM -0800, Ben Dash
on using it on my
Gentoo XBox once I finish it. Sorry if anyone bought
one only to find that it actually doesn't work. I'm
going to try it on Linux this weekend to confirm for
myself if it has drivers, if someone has already had
success please let me know.
--- Ben Dash wrote:
RE: LITE-ON SK7551
yep - It look like I'll be eating crow and buying a
LiteOn to replace my beloved versapoint since it's
still not working as of December last year:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-40614-highlight-versapoint.html
It sounds s close to working, darn it!
--- Ben Dash wrote:
RE: LITE
I have two keyboards and two mice connected and
working now. Here's one... here's the other...
The first set is a PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard and the
second is a Verspoint RF USB keyboard and mouse combo
with 100ft range. To test the range I'm actually
typing this from about 60 feet away through 4
i had it configured for my PS/2 mouse
and keyboard that are still plugged in and are working
simultaneously:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2131143.html#2131143
--- Ben Dash wrote:
yep - It look like I'll be eating crow and buying a
LiteOn to replace my beloved versapoint since it's
RE: LITE-ON SK7551 Black PS/2 Wireless Type Mini
Keyboard
These used to be $17 newegg (plus ship) or $20
chiefvalue. Still
a good deal. I am not super fond of the stick
mouse, but the keyboard
is quite small (good) and has a very long range
because it's IR.
Most radio keyboards are only
I'd really like to use my XBox as a diskless mythtv
frontend. Since I'm not planning on using the XBox
for anything other than Myth and XBox games I don't
really want to swap out the standard 8 or 10 gig
drive. I'd prefer to put etherboot onto some free
space on the existing disk, or even better
Do both of those nVidia cards do the MPEG decoding or
is that still done by the CPU?
no problem with the nvidia fx 5200 here, too.
The nVidia GeForce 4 MX 440 is cheap, easy to
install, and works great.
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relied upon and
has comprehensive info, so i'm hoping i can make
this a reality. the
crucial factor though is how many people would sign
up for it.
Fortunatly for me in in the US so I have access to a
reliable EPG.
However, back before I
Now if only I could coax an extra bit of speed out
of
my 400mhz mendocino so that the slight video stutter
every couple of seconds would disappear.
I just noticed that the stdout from mythfrontend is
saying prebuffering pause every couple of seconds
from either live TV or recorded shows, is
Anyone using other window managers?
I use evilwm for my dedicated mythtv box. I don't
think that you get any more streamlined than that.
On my desktop I use Gnome or XFCE, since I like GTK.
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thought that I wasn't yet registered on the list due
to the latency.
I'm sure that this is kernel related. Since I was able
to fix it on my r128 machine, by adding the r128
kernel options, gentoo 2.6.9, I hope that I should be
able to get it working
(PST), Ben
Dash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MythTV 0.16 is working great for me on Gentoo,
and the
install was a breeze once the problems with my
PVR 250
type 50 were resolved.
The only problem that I'm having which I
haven't so
far slved is that the preview of my recorded
MythTV 0.16 is working great for me on Gentoo, and the
install was a breeze once the problems with my PVR 250
type 50 were resolved.
The only problem that I'm having which I haven't so
far slved is that the preview of my recorded shows
looks like photograph negatives. It's like RBG
instead of
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