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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello's Everyone.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Right i just though i would post here what i am
trying to do with mythtv and my EPIA M10000 Ezra-T Core. Basicly i'm setting up
a seperate frontend and backend systems.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The backend will be somewhere of the order of a
PIII 500 if i can get it to work (its wot i have till i upgrade) with a Leadtek
Winfast TV2000 XP Deluxe card in it. I plan to make it encode the streams to
MPEG2 so the hardware decoder on my VIA board can use them. It will have the
databases for myth setup on this box as well.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Heres where life gets fun. The frontend will have a
hard drive with the smallist system image i can get on it. Plus lots of
space for MP3's, Videos and photos. Now i want to also have the database on this
frontend just storing the info needed to make the frontend work. So that i can
unplug the box from the network and use it as a mp3, video and so on box. I'm
going to order a nice big LCD screen to go on the front of the box so i can use
it without a TV if i just want music. I'm hoping that i can get this all to work
without tooooo much problums. i'm in the prosess of looking at MiniMyth to see
how its all done there. But i will end up using the Redhat 9 2.4.20-8 kernel as
it supports the CLE266 via drivers. With any luck this frontend should end up
being a small image that will work with any via EPIA M which has a homebrew lirc
receiver on com1 and a dvd drive.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The stuff i would like to add:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-LCD support (so it can work without a
TV)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-LIRC support<BR>-ALSA (the digital outputs
for sound) </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-HW decoding on the CLE266</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-Work with any standend mythtv backend on the
network (autofind and use them??)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-can be used without a backend</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-maby if the image is small enoth load it to a
ramdisk at boot from the hd so the hd only needs work if playing mp3s or videos
from it (can powerdown the hd for watching liveTV)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-make some nice plugs on the front so u can use
XBOX/PS/USB (which everone i deside on) gamepads for ROM's and controling the
box.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is anyone insterested in this?? or has any
comments??</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanx in advance</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-Laurence</FONT></DIV>
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