[Mageia-discuss] Mageia PVR

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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.