[11:40] <morgan> is there any choice between a revo running xbmc or a boxee?
[11:42] <morgan> xbmc seems more robust, but im not sure the revo is the biz.. is there sometihng better?
[18:54] <digitlman> hello all
[18:59] <digitlman> would somebody recommend Intel Atom/Nvidia ION over AMD Fusion for Mythbuntu?
[19:01] <rhpot1991> digitlman: you'll want to stick with nvidia
[19:02] <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
[19:03] <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
[19:06] <digitlman> not sure what vid cap card to use in that, however....
[19:15] <tgm4883> digitlman, whoa, for a backend?
[19:15] <tgm4883> not sure I would use an atom processor in a backend
[19:16] <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
[19:17] <digitlman> well, it *is* a dual core 1.8Ghz
[19:17] <digitlman> is that not powerful enough?
[19:18] <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
[19:19] <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?
[19:20] <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
[19:21] <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
[19:22] <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
[19:23] <digitlman> thanks for the info....I was *really* hoping to contruct something that runs under 20 watts at load
[19:24] <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
[19:25] <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
[19:27] <digitlman> what is your back end?  Is it listed here?
[19:28] <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
[19:29] <digitlman> any idea what the back end draws for power?
[19:37] <rhpot1991> never measured it unfortunately
[19:37] <digitlman> ahh
[19:42] <digitlman> thanks for th einfo
[20:04] <Number6> Hi
[20:05] <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
[20:06] <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
[20:16] <Number6> I tried that already, but under "frontend" >> Watch Videos, it says there's no files
[20:34] <rhpot1991> m > scan for changes
[20:51] <Number6> Ahh, I need now
[20:51] <Number6> Thanks.
[20:52] <Number6> Should the mediafiles be owned by MythTV or my own username?
[21:03] <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
[21:04] <Number6> Aye, I think I'll do that.
[21:05] <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
[21:08] <Number6> Hmm, I think mounting the external hard drives changed the ownerships as root
[21:24] <Seeker`> how good is bluray playback in mythtv now?