Linux.com Article: Using Windows, Xbox, and iPod as Alternative MythTV Front Ends
Originally published at www.linux.com on December 09, 2008 at 09:00 AM; reprinted with the author’s permission. Digital video recorders (DVR) are becoming more and more mainstream. TiVo, in fact, has passed the truest test of any popular technology — having its name transformed into a verb. MythTV, a free and open source application that lets you turn a computer into a DVR, burst on the scene a few years ago, and has found fans among Linux users. However, with a little effort, it’s possible to run MythTV front ends on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Xbox, and even an Apple iPod Classic. When MythTV first emerged, only the bravest of the open source faithful dared to try it. Few had the specific hardware to make it work, let alone the...
Smart Home Media Project: Adding a Shortcut to XBMC
Well, it has been a while, so I thought I better at least complete this thought regarding XBMC. Â Overall, it is one of the slickest open source projects I’ve encountered. Â Well run, well designed, and very active. Â However, there are some downsides. Â Let me break this down as well as I can from my perspective: XBMC – The Good: Super fast and responsive Easy (ish) to setup Cheap hardware Active community Fantastic codec compatibility It just works XBMC – The Bad: Myth LiveTV Frontend ineffective Myth Schedules hard to read Adding shortcuts Remember, this is from my perspective. Â XBMC is completely secondary to my MythTV needs–I am just not using it as a standalone. Right now there is no way to make the Xbox my only settop...
Smart Home Media Project – Xebian
It’s been a little too long since my last post–apologies. Here’s what I’ve found out since: The pre-built Xebian/Myth distro seems to have trouble finding my backend server. Which is strange, as they are both on the same 100MB network segment. It complains about no UPnP sources. Apparently no one can watch live TV on the XBMCMythTV script…I am giving up. This will apparently be folded into the next major release of XBMC–the script developers are working directly with the XBMC team. The 1.3 release of PFSense will include support for OpenDNS via their DNS-O-Matic site. This has nothing to do with XBMC…just thought it was cool. All firewalls should be doing this! My PFSense firewall might be...
Smart Home Media Project – Phase II – Hack That Xbox
Yes, I will now be referring to these efforts as the Joseph Baxter’s Smart Home Media Project ™. There’s no way I’ll be able to resist coming up with some sort of logo for that, I’m sure. So, now to the part that, quite frankly, spooked me a little. Yeah, the Myth stuff was fairly hard, and my Linux knowledge is somewhat lacking, but it was just computer stuff. Nothing really too far outside of my comfort level. But this – hacking an xbox? That’s something only DJ Micro can do! Well…it turned out to be far easier than I thought. The hardest part is actually getting all of the ingredients together. The hack itself only took 10 or 12 minutes. So, here’s the list to follow my...
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