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I'm using it to watch HD on my SD > > Sony Wega Tv. It downscales 1080i to 480i beautifully. Hopefully soon I can > > get a proper HD set. > > > > -Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Gackst

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lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Gackstatter > > Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 2:38 PM > > To: 'Discussion about mythtv' > > Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless > > solution > > > > I run MythRoku on a Roku Photo

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es with something like a harmony remote, but mythroku isn't updated to take advantage of it yet. >> -Original Message-> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf> Of Chris Gackstatter> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 2:38 PM > To: 'Discus

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10:31 AMTo: 'Discussion about mythtv'; 'Message-ID:'Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless I have an HD 1000, it is my understanding that the only difference between the HD1000 and HD1500 is that the 1500 comes with additional software for di

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> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Chris Gackstatter > Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 2:38 PM > To: 'Discussion about mythtv' > Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for > Frontend only fan

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MythTV wrote: I do believe I'm sold. I've been looking for a good HD front-end (even though my HD-3000 isn't operational yet) and this looks perfect! There's also the Avel LinkPlayer2. It's a consumer product, non-Myth HD frontend. It plays DivX, Real, MPEG-1/2, Windows Media, etc. I have

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on a Card.  I think they give you a larger card because they provide you with more software.   Chris     Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:11:36 -0400 From: "MythTV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless   solution To: "&#x

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Chris GackstatterSent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 2:38 PMTo: 'Discussion about mythtv'Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solutionI run MythRoku on a Roku Photobridge HD.  What is there is easy to installand works great.  MythRoku can use some more work but i

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Gackstatter Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 2:38 PM To: 'Discussion about mythtv' Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution I run MythRoku on a Roku Photobridge HD. What is there is easy to install and works great. MythRoku can use some more work but

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ber 07, 2005 10:23 AMTo: 'Discussion about mythtv'Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution After reading all this about the mini-mac and then someone talking about water cooled I am convinced I made the right decision to go with the Roku HD100

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On Friday 07 October 2005 22:06, Patrick Watson wrote: > Steve Adeff wrote: > > On Friday 07 October 2005 20:26, Patrick Watson wrote: > >> bill peck wrote: > >>> On 10/7/05, *Bruce Smith* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > wrote: > >>> > >>> Will it play shows from the backen

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On 10/7/05, Patrick Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steve Adeff wrote:> On Friday 07 October 2005 20:26, Patrick Watson wrote:>>> bill peck wrote:> On 10/7/05, *Bruce Smith* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:>> Will it play shows from the backend that have been transcod

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Steve Adeff wrote: On Friday 07 October 2005 20:26, Patrick Watson wrote: bill peck wrote: On 10/7/05, *Bruce Smith* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Will it play shows from the backend that have been transcoded to MPEG-4? No it will not. The roku can only

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On Friday 07 October 2005 20:26, Patrick Watson wrote: > bill peck wrote: > > On 10/7/05, *Bruce Smith* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: > > > > Will it play shows from the backend that have been transcoded to > > MPEG-4? > > No it will not. The roku can only decod

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bill peck wrote: On 10/7/05, *Bruce Smith* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Will it play shows from the backend that have been transcoded to MPEG-4? No it will not. The roku can only decode MPEG1 and MPEG2. Unfortunately that kills it for me. MPEG-4 and sim

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- Original Message - From: "Mark Kundinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion about mythtv" ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 9:18 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution > --- Ricardo Klee

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--- Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > This is not a fanless solution, but what do you guys think of this? > How does this hardware stack up for mythtv? > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16856140003 > > It's only $125 with a rebate, just add the cpu,

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I'm not sure it has a USB port ... beyond that you are on your own. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Wilson Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 11:25 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestio

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On 10/7/05, Andrew Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you connect a USB printer to it? This would probably tip me overthe edge into buying one! You can but it won't do anything for you.  The usb port on the device is only for wireless.  In theory if you didn't need to use the other memory card

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Can you connect a USB printer to it? This would probably tip me over the edge into buying one! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

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ll > > love it. > > > > Chris > > > > ---------- > > > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Ricardo Kleemann > > *Sent:* Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:57 PM > > *To:* Discuss

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On 10/7/05, Bruce Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm intrigued by this box, but I can't find any mention of "Myth" on the web site. I'm looking for a quiet frontend to replace my noisy PC frontend. I'm only interested in being able to play shows recorded on my backend, I don't care about any of

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I'm intrigued by this box, but I can't find any mention of "Myth" on the web site. I'm looking for a quiet frontend to replace my noisy PC frontend. I'm only interested in being able to play shows recorded on my backend, I don't care about any of the other non-TV Myth components. I'm only doing st

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h a rebate, just add the cpu, memory, disk. It already has a video card with TV-out...   Ricardo - Original Message - From: Alex Brekken To: Discussion about mythtv Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless s

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PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ricardo Kleemann Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:57 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution   Hi guys,   This is not a fanless solution, but what do you guys think of this? How does this

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V-out...   Ricardo - Original Message - From: Alex Brekken To: Discussion about mythtv Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution Well I'm not sure I'd call the Mini inexpensive

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out more about > > >different alternatives for frontends. Is this an older mac? Does it > > >already come with an appropriate video card? > > > > > >It's awesome to think mythtv can run on a laptop...! > > > > > >Ricardo > > >

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As it's unix, you can run a native mythtv install on it. However, I also tried it with a linux ppc install, and they both were lacking. My advice is to look elsewhere, but ymmv. Reza On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 03:53:24PM -0700, Brad Fuller sent me this... > Jon Vanderwoude wrote: > > >I've got a m

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> >already come with an appropriate video card? > > > >It's awesome to think mythtv can run on a laptop...! > > > >Ricardo > >- Original Message - > >From: Todd Houle > >To: Discussion about mythtv > >Sent: Thursday, October 06, 200

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Well I'm not sure I'd call the Mini inexpensive (maybe compared to other Mac's), but the form factor is pretty tough to beat.  Is HD even a remote possibility on a Mini, or is it out of the question?  I assume you can't use hardware acceleration like XvMC  If it can't do HD, is the CPU the prob

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i remember seeing someone post somewhere, can't remember if it was this list or irc or what, that had built the mac mini into their tv housing. he had a website with pictures, i think he had some sort of big dlp tv but apparently that worked and i thought it was pretty cool at the time. __

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natives for frontends. Is this an older mac? Does it already come with an appropriate video card?   It's awesome to think mythtv can run on a laptop...!   Ricardo - Original Message - From: Todd Houle To: Discussion about mythtv Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 3:04

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Jon Vanderwoude wrote: I've got a mini-mac I've used as a front end, technically there is supposedly a fan in there but I've never heard it and I can't feel any air moving around the vents in the back unless I put a cd/dvd in there. Do people with mac-minis put Linux on them? Or do you run O

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On 10/6/05, Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Todd,   Which version of the mac is the "mini"? I'm sorry I'm not too familiar with Macs, I'm just interested in finding out more about different alternatives for frontends. Is this an older mac? Does it already come with an a

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;s awesome to think mythtv can run on a laptop...!   Ricardo - Original Message - From: Todd Houle To: Discussion about mythtv Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution I'm running a

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I'm running a front end (not to TV) on my Mac G4 laptop (1.6Ghz)- which has a hair more power than the mini.  Here, I'm using 33% of my CPU when watching a show.  The show is recorded with a PVR350 at high quality (720x480?).  Seeing as the mini is only a little less brainy than this machine, I thi

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PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Fuller Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:01 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution Todd Ignasiak wrote: > One frontend I've been looking into is the "Roku Photobridge HD" ( > ht

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Todd Ignasiak wrote: One frontend I've been looking into is the "Roku Photobridge HD" ( http://www.rokulabs.com/products/photobridge/index.php ). It's a media player for HDTV's. It is Linux based, and has a hardware MPEG2 decoder onboard. They encourage open source developement on their p

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Does this mini-mac solution work well for a frontend? What model / version of the mac is this? Ricardo - Original Message - From: "Jon Vanderwoude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion about mythtv" Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 7:39 AM Subject: Re: [myt

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> I've got a mini-mac I've used as a front end, technically there is > supposedly a fan in there but I've never heard it and I can't feel any > air moving around the vents in the back unless I put a cd/dvd in > there. Does the mac mini have the kahonies for HDTV? -- _\ | /_

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On 10/5/05, Reza Naima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know of a good, inexpensive fanless frontend barebones system I > get get for mythtv? Something with a bit of extra power would be good > for the HD viewing. And most importantly, something with some decently > supported hardware - I'm ti

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One frontend I've been looking into is the "Roku Photobridge HD" ( http://www.rokulabs.com/products/photobridge/index.php ).   It's a media player for HDTV's.  It is Linux based, and has a hardware MPEG2 decoder onboard.  They encourage open source developement on their platform, and someone has po