[plug] MythTV project

[Shanon Loughton]

My ubuntu media server is not connected to my tv - i use mediatomb to serve
and ps3 to play it all.  If I replace mediatomb with xmbc on the ubuntu
server can you control the record settings through the ps3 client?

Shanon


On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Lucas van Staden <lvs at dedmeet.com> wrote:

> On 11/02/11 13:43, Tim Bowden wrote:
>
>> Thanks for all the advice.  WAF is a big factor here, so I'd like to
>> get it right before I roll it out.
>>
>> It looks like I'll go with a Micro ATX motherboard for the PCI slots.
>> I'd like to run a separate back end system, but at the moment that's
>> not practical.  I've got nowhere out of the way to run a 24/7 noisy
>> backend system as I had to give up my study a while back for a kids
>> bedroom, and won't get one back till we move.  I have an old AMD-64
>> dual core system lying around with a dead motherboard that would make
>> an excellent back end if I could find a new motherboard for it.  If I
>> could find a Micro ATX motherboard that would still take it, I'd
>> consider it as as a front end, but I suspect it would be a bit noisy
>> with the cooling it would need.
>>
>> Interesting with the xbmc option Lucas.  What are the advantages of
>> that over using the MythTV front end with MythVideo/Music plugins?
>>
>
> Mostly mine is WAF related. (look and feel/ease of use)
>
> Last time I used mythtv frontend was a bout 4 years ago, and wife did not
> like the interface at all.
> Tried skin after skin after skin....
>
> xbmc  just LOOKS way better than any of the mythtv skins/screen layouts
> that I have seen and tried.
> I started using it a long time ago when I did not have mythtv running, as I
> had no need to record stuff (had a pvr box that did that job back in the UK)
> and just wanted a frontend to view d/loaded content. and stuck with it.
>
> I am very happy with it, and I myself think it is way better looking than
> mythtv's frontend, and simpler to use.
>
> Now that xbmc is gearing towards integrating their frontend with as many
> PVR backends as they can (mythtv seeming to be a main one), it keeps the
> frontend the same no matter what backend I am using, which again comes back
> to WAF.
>
> Other than that, not much else, off the top of my head.
>
> The xbmc plugins are great (and there are MANY), easy to install using just
> the menus, no technical requirements, so wife can install her own plugins as
> she sees fit.
>
> Can't comment on the music side, as I do not use that at all. (xbmc or
> mythtv - I find those interfaces really cumbersome, but not as bad as the
> PS3 interface to music - try and browse a couple of thousand songs there!
> using just a remote)
>
> Our music is run on the same mini-itx box (as it is next to the amp), but
> the interface we use is MiniRok, which I run over the network via xorg's
> network transparency stuff (and dxpc), and it allows the wife to play music
> using her own actual pc, which sits in the dining room area. (easy
> navigation/searching etc using actual kb and mouse - but the music blasts
> out over the amp)
>
> see
> http://www.dedmeet.com/software-projects-mainmenu-12/remote-music-player.html(little bit dated. Changed teh way i used dxpc to allow swapping teh display
> about and I had wired the whole house with cat6e since then. Also, we have
> moved on to MiniRok, which my wife likes the most of all music players
> tried.- it is simple, fast, and uses file navigation, not mp3 tags.)
>
> Minirok is run using dxpc, which is a compression layer and speeds things
> up, not much use on the homes gigabit network now, but it has one huge
> advantage:
> Minirok is always running on the mini-itx box, inside a dxpc session, so I
> can just connect to that session via a call from any pc in the home (all
> linux of course)
>
> So, I can 'seamlessly' swap the display from one pc to another, and the
> music is not interrupted.
> Great for parties!
>
> -Lucas
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> Regards
> Lucas van Staden
>
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