[Mageia-discuss] Mageia PVR

[Marc Paré]

Le 2012-09-02 15:39, AL13N a écrit :
> Op zondag 2 september 2012 07:45:55 schreef Marc Paré:
>> My wife would like a PVR. I was wondering if anyone was using Mageia to
>> run as a PVR? I was planning on using MythTV.
>>
>> I have a spare box that I am planning to use with a terabyte drive +
>> another 160gig drive. I am hoping to stream programs over our house lan
>> to another 4 Mageia computer boxes. Our house is wired with ethernet !Gig.
>>
>> Any suggestions would help.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Marc
>
> i have a mediabox diskless that i'm booting via PXE and uses nfs mount over
> gigabit networking, the files to be played are also on nfs mounts and thus are
> played over networking as well...
>
> i've been able to play a full HD (real 1080p non interlaced!) complete movie
> without any glitch whatsoever (i only have one such movie)
>
> so, i've installed the basesystem and task-kde4 as if it were a chroot in that
> dir where the nfs mount point points to.
>
> then i made the PXE work to boot the system. then i just have autologin to a
> complete KDE, with the bar hidden, put a clock on the background and put in
> four big buttons (plasma-launchbutton) with some icons on it and linked to 4
> apps: DVD + video + music + tv
>
> then i bought a wiimote and bluetooth receiver, and i use the wiimote to point
> and click, apparently no sensor bar is needed, if you have any type of light
> source, candle, lightbulb or spots, it all works.
>

Hmmm, I am trying to keep costs down, we can purchase a PVR box for 
approximately $250Cdn. But, I could always try some of these nifty 
things later. I like the wiimote and blootooth idea.

Cheers,

Marc



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