<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Oct 6, 2008, at 1:21 PM, Jonathan Larson wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding-top: 3pt; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org">mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org</a> [<a href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Ben Edwards<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, October 03, 2008 3:55 AM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Discussion about mythtv<br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[mythtv-users] Xbox front-end advice please<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Just about to start getting the bits I need to build a Xbox frontend. Have found a couple of HOWTOs but any advise would be appreciated. I use Ubuntu on my server so I would like to use a Ubuntu bast distro for the frontend or failing that a Debian one. Key thing is that I need like to keep the version numbers in sync and would rather not compile from source. I have a few questions:-<br><br>Which HOWTO do people recommend?<br><br>Do I need a modded Xbox, if so what should I be looking/asking for? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Is any pre 360 Xbox OK or do I need to look for certain versions?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Do I need to use a keyboard adapter or can I do a net install with a USB Wireless adapter, if so what ones should wold?<br></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><div>As others have said, unless you really want to re-use an Xbox you already have, don't go there. Slow, big, noisy. I'd try to pick up a used AppleTV or build a small, quiet PC of some sort. They're fast enough you can do some HD content, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>-Pete</div></body></html>