On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 23:34, Eric Jorgensen wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 07:58:18 -0700
> "skeeterskip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone hacked Tivo to play Freevo or Mythtv? I know there is hack
> > for storage space, but it would be interesting to convert Tivo in to
> > full media box
Not sure if I've missed something here. Also it's been a while since I
set this up so I might not remember everything. I have my tv set up as
follows.
FREQUENCY_TABLE = {
'RTE1' : 192100,
'NET2' : 176050,
'UTV' : 200150,
'Channel4' : 56300,
OK hopefully the following will help, it's a bit rough around the edges.
First off go to http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php There you'll find a
handy tool for setting up sources for urpmi. Add contrib, and plf. You
might want to tick 'use compressed index...' option to setup urpmi to
use a much
Hm, trying to remember how I did it now...
IIRC I installed 1.4 from the mandrake RPMs this shouted about various
dependencies (twisted etc)which I found with web searches, I then
removed 1.4 and installed 1.5 and tried to run it, Freevo shouted about
some packages being too old so I updated the
Hi Peter,
[A little bit of off-topic, sorry about that...]
I've tried out a number of Linux distros myself through-out the years. I
found Redhat to be the one that suited me the best, and now they have
discontinued the free version. Closest to this distro was Mandrake which has
proven to be a very
This might be a sensitive area, but I've been using Mandrake for a very long
time Recently I got some problems with my freevo box, and installed debian
on it instead.
The experience with using apt-get for (for instance) freevo 1.5rc?,
mplayer, xine etc. has been an experience close to making out
Thanks drew for your input.
Do you know where can I find the freevo depency list for Mandrake?
By the way, the Mandrake 10 ISO:s did not contain too many packages, I was
forced to map the SUNET site in the media manager to be able to install even
mplayer.
// Magnus
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