[Mageia-discuss] Mageia PVR

Tue Sep 4 00:11:07 CEST 2012

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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