On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:58:59PM +0000, Justin Hornsby wrote: > The basic idea is this: > DBOX2 operates on your network as a 'source' for video to record. > There's code in SVN to talk to the box, get a list of channels & > populate the programme guide (but you have to add the channels > yourself). At recording time, mythtv takes an MPEG2-TS stream from > the DBOX2's network connection via a TCP stream. An alternative method > using UDP is being developed, so I hear...
Sounds idea, if it worked. > Anyway - in that configuration not many people have had success or a > great deal of reliability, but this is probably caused by the http > daemon on the dbox being overwhelmed (or that fact it only has 10-base > ethernet). Ouch. > A very workable solution is to use the dbox as-is, but rather than > enabled it as a video source for mythtv directly, connect a PVR tuner > card to its audio & video outputs. You don't need an IR blaster to > change channels on the box because the dbox has a web interface... all > you need is a script (see the ML archive from a few days ago for my > scripts to do this very job). That would be more tricky. The aim is to avoid noisy machines in living areas and the run to the computer room is too far. Silent PCs aren't cheap either. > Either way, your mileage may vary, and getting the damned thing to > work in the first place can be tricky -thankfully there are lots of > forums for help on that. I've spent a fair while on MythTV and don't mind putting the effort in. > Some people are under the misapprehension the dbox can be 'converted' > into a frontend for mythtv. This might be possible, but I'm not aware Some sort of port I guess. > of anybody having tried it. The dbox software _can_ play back MPEG2 > files from network shares though, so maybe it wouldn't be too much > work to bolt a better GUI around it & a bit of mysql. What about the other way? Exporting a samba or NFS share off the DBOX to be used as a source by MythVideo running elsewhere? > I hope this answers some questions for you. It does. Thanks. Mike -- Mike Richardson Networks IT Services, University of Manchester Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Plain text only please - attachments stripped on arrival* _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
