Topic: Xbox Mythtv Users Help (Read 79 times)

anitabill · « **on:** January 21, 2004, 03:47:00 AM »

I fixed it.

The documentation on http://bit.blkbk.com/ website reads.

/etc/network/interfaces - set for your local IP addresses

But if you set your local IP it does not work. Follow the directions on Eds Debian site located here. http://xbox-linux.so...owtodebian.html

----From his site---
Changing TCP/IP network settings
By default, the IP address of your Linux installation is 192.168.0.2. The subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. You can change these and other important TCP/IP network settings (such as the default gateway) by editing the text file

/etc/network/interfaces
For example, to do this in nanoyou would type

cd /etc/network
nano -wz interfaces

If you would like to configure your Xbox for DHCP (automatically getting the IP address and other TCP/IP networking settings from a DHCP server), ensure that it reads

iface eth0 inet dhcp

there and not
iface eth0 inet static.
The DNS server and your domain name are defined in a file called
/etc/resolv.conf
You can edit this file the same way as described above.

By the way if anyone still knows the answerer to the caller ID question. Please contact me

Bill

shortstuff22090 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 21, 2004, 12:35:00 PM »

so i need to set up my backend then install this
sounds easy. i thought you needed a usb tv tuner. im gunna turn my server into a myth tv backend, cuz its not used much anyway
this is gunna be sweet

falser · « **Reply #2 on:** January 21, 2004, 01:26:00 PM »

QUOTE (shortstuff22090 @ Jan 21 2004, 10:35 PM)

so i need to set up my backend then install this
sounds easy. i thought you needed a usb tv tuner. im gunna turn my server into a myth tv backend, cuz its not used much anyway
this is gunna be sweet

I also have the WinTV 250 card, and the recordings turn out really really nice. Highly recommended.

Using a mini-distro would be a lot easier than getting it to work yourself. I know I ran into a lot of problems before I was able to get everything working well, and I more or less know what I'm doing.

shortstuff22090 · « **Reply #3 on:** January 22, 2004, 12:59:00 PM »

so you can get live tv on your xbox with a p2 400 as your backend? i have an amd k6-2 500 i might try, i figured it wouldnt work and that you need a good backend pc

shortstuff22090 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 22, 2004, 01:33:00 PM »

also i was wondering if recorded tv is recorded on the backend or the frontend, cuz i only have a 10 gig on the pc im gunna use for a backend

falser · « **Reply #5 on:** January 22, 2004, 05:30:00 PM »

The shows are recorded on the backend - that's why it's called the backend

If you were to get a WinTV 350 you should be okay with a K6 500. That card has both a hardware MPEG2 encoder and decoder so very little CPU is needed to record or play the files. With my recording settings the files are about 2GB per hour. You could sacrifice quality and get it lower but I wouldn't. With hard drives so cheap these days (120GB for $60 after rebate) you have little reason to settle with a small drive.

falser · « **Reply #6 on:** January 23, 2004, 04:07:00 AM »

I've only got the TV functions working, cause that's all I wanted on the xbox front-end. I disabled all the other buttons on the main interface.

I remember reading something about the LED. I might even have the page bookmarked at home, I'll check.

I wasn't even aware there is a CID function in MythTV.

Oh BTW I should have tested it sooner - XBMC can play the recorded shows (.nuv files) that MythTV records from the WinTV 250 card. So you can set up Samba on your backend, and make an XBMC bookmark to it to have a quick way to watch shows without loading up linux.

shortstuff22090 · « **Reply #7 on:** January 23, 2004, 03:57:00 PM »

hmm idont think it will work on my k6-2 system cuz i have a card without hardware mpeg-2. btw i cant get a bigger harddrive cuz im a 13 year old without a job.

also i was thinking that it would be cool to have xbmp or xbmc incorperate the ability to connect to a myth tv backend. that would be a great addition.

falser · « **Reply #8 on:** January 23, 2004, 09:07:00 PM »

QUOTE

hmm idont think it will work on my k6-2 system cuz i have a card without hardware mpeg-2.

Yes without a hardware mpeg tuner you won't be able to do this. I used to have an AMD 1.4GHz and software encoder and that was enough, but just barely. The system eventually overheated and blew out the motherboard.

QUOTE

btw i cant get a bigger harddrive cuz im a 13 year old without a job.

Ah - then I recommend convincing your parents that this is something they'd want to use also.

QUOTE

also i was thinking that it would be cool to have xbmp or xbmc incorperate the ability to connect to a myth tv backend. that would be a great addition.

Actually I've just written up a quick script that allows for a nice way for XBMC to list the shows your MythTV backend has recorded. It's pretty much what I was looking for all along. As I mentioned XMBC can already play the files it records - so all you do is make a script that makes soft links to the 1067_209320293_202302 type of files, but query the mythtv database to get the real name.

So now in my XMBC I can have a "MythTV" entry, and see my shows sorted in reverse order they were recorded:

1 Late Night With Conan O'Brien (Jan-24 12 AM).mpg
2 The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (Jan-23 11 PM).mpg
3 South Park (Jan-22 09 PM).mpg

Click and play. I don't even have to load up the xbox-mythtv front end to watch shows anymore. If anyone is interested in the Perl script I used let me know.

shortstuff22090 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 24, 2004, 03:03:00 AM »

im alking about a addon to xbmp for live tv
that would be tight as hell

and my parents wont buy me anything for my computer, they got me a laptop for xmas so i probly wont get much this whole year

edit: if i did set this all up on my linux pc (p4 2ghz, 256 ram) would it work on wlan, like could i watch live tv on my laptop

falser · « **Reply #10 on:** January 24, 2004, 10:16:00 AM »

Personally I have found that over time I don't use the LiveTV features very often at all. I just record the shows I'm interested in and never channel surf anymore. To me that is the main benefit of MythTV or Tivo.

If your wireless card is fast enough (like 802.11g or whatever is around 55mbps) then it might be okay.

Beelzabub · « **Reply #11 on:** February 19, 2004, 04:08:00 PM »

anyone know of a solution/program that has windows/linux client/server? cause in my case I would like to run the backend on my more powerfull machine which is a XP machine and run the frontend on xbox. I have another linux box which runs slackware but its an old pieace of crap 333mhz :| and but my better machine p4 2.6 running xp so this would be great if something like "SnapStream" had a linux version then could run backend on windows and frontend on xbox via linux.

TB_88 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 22, 2004, 03:25:00 AM »

I'm trying to learn about this.
Can you install thhe backendserver on a windows machine? I run XP on my 2500+.
Is there a howto on this?

Is the documentation only for Linux?

Beelzabub · « **Reply #13 on:** February 22, 2004, 08:04:00 AM »

nope no backend for windows... theres some people who have ported a win32 port here and there but has problems so nope not really

Beelzabub · « **Reply #14 on:** February 24, 2004, 08:11:00 AM »

http://bit.blkbk.com/ on that page he has 2 more mirrors:

- There is now a direct download mirror available!! Joshua Bernstein and Chris Nelson
were kind enough to make this possible. Thanks guys.

Mirror 1: http://mirrors.engr....a.edu/xboxmyth/
Mirror 2: http://www.crazybrain.org/mythtvxbox/

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