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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jack Madison</b> <<a href="mailto:jack@webhouse.cc">jack@webhouse.cc</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Sorry if this has been discussed a bazillion times, I've done a bunch of<br>searching and while I can find a bunch of howto's, I haven't found much
<br>in the way of "which is better".<br><br>After a bunch of searching I've decided to try an xbox as a frontend. On<br>impulse I bought an xbox for $100, turns out it's version 1.1 which is<br>supposedly good.
<br><br>I've done a bunch of searching on doing the softmod vs. a chip, but I'm<br>a bit confused on the best way to go. I THINK I want to go with a mod<br>chip, no need to track down a specific version of a game, deal with
<br>special cables or replay boxes, moving savegames, etc. Perhaps it's not<br>as bad as it sounds? If I chip it, is it should be as simple as put in<br>the chip, boot up to the linux install and go? If I go with a mod chip,
<br>which should I use? The DuoX2 seems to be the cheapest, but are there<br>any drawbacks?<br><br>If the xbox ends up being a good front end I'll buy probably 2 more and<br>do the same thing with them. I have no interest in playing xbox games,
<br>I simply want to boot up the xbox straight to a mythtv frontend. If I<br>track down everything I need for the softmod I should then be able to<br>mod other xboxs without additional hardware. Can both a softmoded and
<br>chipped xbox both boot straight to myth?<br><br>As for Linux, is Xebian the best?<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org
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<div><br>If you got an old xbox, you can hard mod it without buying a modchip. You need to simple solder two points on the motherboard and flash the onboard bios with a modded bios. Check out <a href="http://www.xbox-scene.com">
www.xbox-scene.com</a> for details on how to do that.</div>
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<div>Once modded (whatever route you take), you can download a xebian linux dist with myth installed and with a little configuration be up and running in no time. Go to <a href="http://www.piratebay.org">www.piratebay.org
</a> and search for mythtv. Via bittorrent, download the latest one and follow the instructions to install and configure. <br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Rob Anderson<br><a href="mailto:riznob@gmail.com">riznob@gmail.com</a> </div>