morgan | is there any choice between a revo running xbmc or a boxee? | 11:40 |
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morgan | xbmc seems more robust, but im not sure the revo is the biz.. is there sometihng better? | 11:42 |
digitlman | hello all | 18:54 |
digitlman | would somebody recommend Intel Atom/Nvidia ION over AMD Fusion for Mythbuntu? | 18:59 |
rhpot1991 | digitlman: you'll want to stick with nvidia | 19:01 |
rhpot1991 | !vdpau | digitlman | 19:02 |
Zinn | digitlman: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU | 19:02 |
digitlman | ahh exellent thanks | 19:02 |
_antant | got my gt210 card coming tomorrow. wish I'd known about it before i bought ati | 19:02 |
digitlman | I'm eyeing this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157227 | 19:03 |
Zinn | [www.newegg.com] Newegg.com - ASRock AD525PV3 Intel Atom D525 (1.8 GHz, Dual-Core) Intel NM10 Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo | 19:03 |
digitlman | not sure what vid cap card to use in that, however.... | 19:06 |
tgm4883 | digitlman, whoa, for a backend? | 19:15 |
tgm4883 | not sure I would use an atom processor in a backend | 19:15 |
digitlman | as a combo, yeah | 19:16 |
digitlman | with 4GB of RAM, I would think this would work | 19:16 |
tgm4883 | thats going to be pretty slow for some of the things a backend does | 19:16 |
digitlman | paired with a 7200 RPM 2.5" drive? | 19:16 |
tgm4883 | I mean, you don't have to worry about encoding anymore, but commflagging and such | 19:16 |
tgm4883 | processor speed is the issue | 19:16 |
digitlman | well, it *is* a dual core 1.8Ghz | 19:17 |
digitlman | is that not powerful enough? | 19:17 |
tgm4883 | digitlman, you can do it, just don't expect the backend to be spectactular | 19:18 |
tgm4883 | for perspective, I want to upgrade my AMD X2 3800+ backend cause I think it commflags too slow | 19:18 |
digitlman | the commflagging is CPU-intensive? | 19:18 |
tgm4883 | yep | 19:18 |
digitlman | can't be off-loaded to the GPU? | 19:19 |
tgm4883 | Nope, not commflagging | 19:19 |
tgm4883 | playback yes | 19:19 |
tgm4883 | But i haven't seen anything that off-loads commflagging to the CPU | 19:19 |
digitlman | would that be apparent more when playing back, or encoding? | 19:19 |
tgm4883 | You won't be doing any encoding usually | 19:20 |
digitlman | recording, I mean | 19:20 |
tgm4883 | nah, recordings is low CPU, as it is just writing the stream to the disk | 19:20 |
tgm4883 | playing back is low to if you use VDPAU | 19:20 |
digitlman | but the playback, you say, would suffer? | 19:21 |
tgm4883 | it may | 19:21 |
digitlman | what would the result in? Stuttering or something? lag? | 19:21 |
tgm4883 | If you don't already have another system for the backend, i'd at least test it out | 19:21 |
tgm4883 | perhaps stuttering | 19:21 |
rhpot1991 | digitlman: most people do an ion for a frontend | 19:21 |
digitlman | what I'm really trying to do i replace a power hungry series 2 Tivo | 19:22 |
rhpot1991 | and then have a nice powerful computer hiding away somewhere for their backend | 19:22 |
digitlman | with a front/back mythbox | 19:22 |
digitlman | one that I can also install other linux program on | 19:22 |
digitlman | thanks for the info....I was *really* hoping to contruct something that runs under 20 watts at load | 19:23 |
digitlman | ION seemed the trick....but maybe an i3 or i5 is better? | 19:24 |
rhpot1991 | ion will be that for playback | 19:24 |
rhpot1991 | not sure what will happen when you throw backend functions into the mix though | 19:24 |
digitlman | ahh i see | 19:24 |
digitlman | it's the combo that might throw it off? | 19:24 |
rhpot1991 | !frontend | 19:24 |
Zinn | Ion Boxes make a great frontend. http://www.baablogic.net/drupal/node/2 | 19:24 |
rhpot1991 | I have some power numbers in there for playback | 19:24 |
rhpot1991 | in the comments section | 19:25 |
rhpot1991 | well more cpu usage with the backend, may hike the power usage some | 19:25 |
digitlman | awesome | 19:25 |
rhpot1991 | also hard drives in the backend, use power | 19:25 |
digitlman | what is your back end? Is it listed here? | 19:27 |
rhpot1991 | digitlman: http://www.baablogic.net/drupal/node/13 | 19:28 |
Zinn | [www.baablogic.net] My MythTV Setup | www.baablogic.net | 19:28 |
rhpot1991 | all my hardware is there, slightly out of date | 19:28 |
digitlman | any idea what the back end draws for power? | 19:29 |
rhpot1991 | never measured it unfortunately | 19:37 |
digitlman | ahh | 19:37 |
digitlman | thanks for th einfo | 19:42 |
Number6 | Hi | 20:04 |
Number6 | Is there a way to edit where myth-tv pulls it's file list from? I have an external hard drive and it's mounted. I'd prefer ssh to edit the files, going through the menu is annoying | 20:05 |
rhpot1991 | define file list | 20:05 |
Number6 | Where avi files are stored | 20:06 |
Number6 | Like /media/hard-drive/movies/myfilms.avi | 20:06 |
rhpot1991 | just add that to a storage group in mythtv-setup | 20:06 |
rhpot1991 | the videos storage group I think | 20:06 |
Number6 | I tried that already, but under "frontend" >> Watch Videos, it says there's no files | 20:16 |
rhpot1991 | m > scan for changes | 20:34 |
Number6 | Ahh, I need now | 20:51 |
Number6 | Thanks. | 20:51 |
Number6 | Should the mediafiles be owned by MythTV or my own username? | 20:52 |
rhpot1991 | Number6: as long as your user is in the mythtv group they should get created with permissions for that group and work | 21:03 |
rhpot1991 | if you are having issues you can try to sudo chown mythtv:mythtv them | 21:03 |
Number6 | Aye, I think I'll do that. | 21:04 |
Number6 | I'm impressed with Myth-TV so far. I used Windows MCE for about 5 years now, and I miss ssh access to fix things | 21:05 |
Number6 | Hmm, I think mounting the external hard drives changed the ownerships as root | 21:08 |
Seeker` | how good is bluray playback in mythtv now? | 21:24 |
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