{"id":42,"date":"2006-04-10T08:57:12","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T16:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.11h.net\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2006-04-10T08:57:12","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T16:57:12","slug":"2nd-mythtv-frontend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/2nd-mythtv-frontend\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd MythTV Frontend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like we need another MythTV-Related post.  I guess its now so important to Eric &#038; I we have to blog on it though!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve had my MythTV system up and running pretty nearly flawlessly for almost 2 months (which works out to 288 recordings in 259 hours and 14 minutes taking up 263 GB of disk space).  My system specs are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Backend<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Old AMD Athlon 1.666GHz<\/li>\n<li>256MB Ram<\/li>\n<li>Slackware Linux 10.2<\/li>\n<li>300GB SATA Hard Drive (to be upgraded to RAID soon)<\/li>\n<li>PVR-150MCE PCI Capture Card<\/li>\n<li>DirecTV Hughes Receiver connected via SVideo<\/li>\n<li>IR Blaster bundled with the PVR-150 to change channels<\/li>\n<li>MythTV SVN <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/svn.mythtv.org\/trac\/browser?rev=9070\">r9070<\/a> (Backend &#038; MythWeb)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Living Room Frontend<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Used Softmodded X-Box running Xebian<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft DVD Remote Control<\/li>\n<li>MythTV SVN <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/svn.mythtv.org\/trac\/browser?rev=9070\">r9070<\/a> (Frontend with MythVideo, MythDVD, MythRecepie plugins)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The X-Box is a little slow in the user-interface, but otherwise seems to work flawlessly.  It plays back SD MPEG2 and MPEG4 videos without any problems.<\/p>\n<p>For my second Frontend, which is currently in the bedroom, I used the following System:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>2nd Frontend<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Old HP Pavilian Motherboard acquired quite some time ago from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/tyson736\">Tyson<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1GHz Intel Celeron<\/li>\n<li>128MB RAM<\/li>\n<li>10GB Hard Drive<\/li>\n<li>nVidia GeFORCE4 MX4000 64MB PCI With SVIDEO Out<\/li>\n<li>Cheap 10MBit PCI Network card I had laying around<\/li>\n<li>Slackware 10.2 and same version of MythTV<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Got everything up and running quite easily!  Here&#8217;s a quick list of &#8220;problems&#8221; I had for documentation (or laughing) purposes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remembered that this POS doesn&#8217;t have an AGP Slot &#8212; I was going to use this for a frontend instead of buying an xbox when I remembered that this motherboard doesn&#8217;t have an AGP slot &#8230; that means I&#8217;d have to buy a new PCI video card&#8230; which I finally did.<\/li>\n<li>Power Supply Connector &#8212; Since I had used this power supply for several things <em>except<\/em> a computer, the green &#8220;Power-On&#8221; pin in the connector had become too large from sticking too many paper clips in it.  Everytime I&#8217;d, say, open the CDROM drive to insert the Slackware boot disc, the drive would vibrate against the power supply, which would move the cable <em>just enough<\/em> to power off the system.  Fixed by crimping it back to a tighter fit.<\/li>\n<li>Bad Hard drive &#8212; My 60GB Hard Drive I was planning on using won&#8217;t read past about 57% of the disk (where it died trying to format it).  Ugh.  Ended up using an older 10GB drive I had laying in the garage.<\/li>\n<li>Noise on TV Screen &#8212; Once everything was working and I moved it to the bedroom and hooked it up to the TV screen, I realized there was some &#8220;digital&#8221; noise interfering with the video!  Its pretty faint and unnoticable when watching TV, but its very noticable during bootup on the black console screen.<\/li>\n<li>NO FREAKING AUDIO OUT CONNECTOR &#8212; I think i&#8217;m starting to realize why Tyson wanted to get rid of this stupid computer &#8230; the motherboard doesn&#8217;t have an audio output jack.  Only three pins on the motherboard.  &#8230;Time to go manufacture my own RCA cables&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Loud volume &#8212; With the mixer set up to full volume, the audio got all distorted.  Whats worse (and funny)?  The audio was interfering with the video on my TV.  I got little rippiling horizontal lines on the video.  Whats worse yet?  When I pressed &#8220;mute&#8221; on the TV (since it was loud an annoying), I could still hear the audio!  I must have been overloading the TV&#8217;s audio circuits.  I&#8217;m sure eric can explain better&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once I &#8220;fixed&#8221; everything, its great!  Now to try and get a remote control working for it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like we need another MythTV-Related post. I guess its now so important to Eric &#038; I we have to blog on it though!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve had my MythTV system up and running pretty nearly flawlessly for almost 2 months (which works out to 288 recordings in 259 hours and 14 minutes taking up 263 GB of disk space). My system specs are:<\/p>\n<p>Backend<\/p>\n<p> Old AMD Athlon 1.666GHz 256MB Ram Slackware Linux 10.2 300GB SATA Hard Drive (to be upgraded to RAID soon) PVR-150MCE PCI Capture Card DirecTV Hughes Receiver connected via SVideo IR Blaster bundled with the PVR-150 to change channels MythTV SVN r9070 (Backend &#038; MythWeb) <\/p>\n<p>Living Room Frontend<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/2nd-mythtv-frontend\/\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Continue reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}