Re: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-10 Thread Joe Votour
It seems to depend on the particular XBox that you have really, or more accurately, the hardware version. The version 1.0 XBox came with a heatsink on the GPU (the nVidia graphics processor) that had a small 40mm fan on it. I found this to be very noisy. Version 1.1 (and perhaps later?) units do

Re: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-10 Thread Andrew Ziobro
Kalle Pokki wrote: I have actually never seen a running xbox, as I'm not a big fan of console games. So I'm wondering how quiet the xbox really is. It does contain a hard drive and some cooling fans to my knowledge, but are they close to silent as nobody seems to ever mention anything about the

Re: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-07 Thread Andrew Close
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 21:54:25 +0200, Kalle Pokki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Ziobro wrote: > > > xbox. > > I have actually never seen a running xbox, as I'm not a big fan of > console games. So I'm wondering how quiet the xbox really is. It does > contain a hard drive and some cooling fans

Re: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-07 Thread Kalle Pokki
Andrew Ziobro wrote: xbox. I have actually never seen a running xbox, as I'm not a big fan of console games. So I'm wondering how quiet the xbox really is. It does contain a hard drive and some cooling fans to my knowledge, but are they close to silent as nobody seems to ever mention anything ab

Re: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-06 Thread Andrew Ziobro
William wrote: What exploit did you use to gain access to your box? I have a xbox v1.6 that I am weighing the various exploit options. I also plan on turning it into a frontend. Bill I used the MechAssault. I had a reburbished box not version 1.6 ___ m

Re: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-06 Thread Andrew Close
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:11:00 -0600, M S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will a 300GB Hard Drive work on an xbox? I thought it was limited to > 176GB or something i don't want to get too off-topic, but as far as i've seen, on xbox-scene.com, yes, a 300GB drive will work. you may 'have' to use one of

Re: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-06 Thread M S
Will a 300GB Hard Drive work on an xbox? I thought it was limited to 176GB or something On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:13:27 -0600, Andrew Close <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:47:31 -0500, William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My first install was this week. Bought the xbox on Mond

Re: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-06 Thread Andrew Close
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:47:31 -0500, William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My first install was this week. Bought the xbox on Monday. > > Running Myth > > by Wednesday. Including all downloads,installs and time to make a usb > > cable adapter for the xbox. Just slightly harder then a Standard > > in

RE: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-06 Thread William
> My first install was this week. Bought the xbox on Monday. > Running Myth > by Wednesday. Including all downloads,installs and time to make a usb > cable adapter for the xbox. Just slightly harder then a Standard > install. One note, Gentoox Home version had almost all of the > requirements

Re: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-06 Thread Andrew Ziobro
sn't the X Box solution a bit of work alos? Don't you have to add a chip or something to make it run Linux? BTW what's EPIA? My first install was this week. Bought the xbox on Monday. Running Myth by Wednesday. Including all downloads,installs and time to make a usb cable adapter for the xbox

Re: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-06 Thread Andrew Ziobro
stan wrote: Would this make a decent Myth Front end only box? http://tinyurl.com/4cojm Or can anyone sugest somethign in a similar form factor that they ahve working well? xbox. Just tried it the other day. Great form factor and price. Using M$ DVD remote, Gentoox, Myth (TV,Video,Music,DVD) fro

Re: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-05 Thread Adam Felson
Running at double the FSB speed is where intel has the advantage. On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 11:43 -0800, Brad Templeton wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:48:19PM -0500, stan wrote: > > just add a nice computer monitor, and I don't plan on using a remote, just > > a RF keyboard. I also have a prefe

RE: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-05 Thread mythtv-users
John wrote: > > > Xbox is dead easy - no chip is required, just a USB cable, a USB > > > flash key, and a specific game (depends on xbox release) > - they will > > > even do it for you at the linux xbox site. Then it is > simply a case > > > of installing xebian, and doing and apt-get to gra

Re: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-05 Thread John Williams
> > Xbox is dead easy - no chip is required, just a USB cable, a USB flash > > key, and a specific game (depends on xbox release) - they will even do > > it for you at the linux xbox site. Then it is simply a case of > > installing xebian, and doing and apt-get to grab myth - tweak 1 file, > > and

Re: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-05 Thread stan
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:23:33PM +, Richie Jarvis wrote: > stan wrote: > > >sn't the X Box solution a bit of work alos? Don't you have to add a chip or > >something to make it run Linux? BTW what's EPIA? > > > >Thanks. > > > > > > > Xbox is dead easy - no chip is required, just a USB cable,

Re: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-05 Thread Richie Jarvis
stan wrote: sn't the X Box solution a bit of work alos? Don't you have to add a chip or something to make it run Linux? BTW what's EPIA? Thanks. Xbox is dead easy - no chip is required, just a USB cable, a USB flash key, and a specific game (depends on xbox release) - they will even do it for

Re: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-05 Thread Brad Templeton
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:48:19PM -0500, stan wrote: > just add a nice computer monitor, and I don't plan on using a remote, just > a RF keyboard. I also have a preference for AMD processors over Intel. > So do I and many people, but it turns out that for media encode/decode, ie. MythTV, Intels s

Re: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-05 Thread stan
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:59:32AM -0800, Asher Schaffer wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 12:18:42 -0500, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Would this make a decent Myth Front end only box? > > > > http://tinyurl.com/4cojm > > > > Or can anyone suggest something in a similar form factor that they ha

Re: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-05 Thread Asher Schaffer
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 12:18:42 -0500, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would this make a decent Myth Front end only box? > > http://tinyurl.com/4cojm > > Or can anyone sugest somethign in a similar form factor that they ahve > working well? > This has been discussed a lot, try searching the list.

[mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-05 Thread stan
Would this make a decent Myth Front end only box? http://tinyurl.com/4cojm Or can anyone sugest somethign in a similar form factor that they ahve working well? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."