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- UbIwerks, on 10/29/2009, -1/+18Dang, there goes my next weekend.
- Athdar, on 10/31/2009, -1/+14Even better...stick with Mythbuntu, install xbmc and boxee, and add menu items to the myth main menu. Now you have the best of all worlds: a PVR that can also watch IPTV and browse your entire media library with a flashy gui.
End result -> http://i36.tinypic.com/2j44qxe.jpg - CocodaMonkey, on 10/31/2009, -1/+10XBMC handles 1080P just fine. As long as you install it on a computer powerful enough to play it that is.
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- 350Zed, on 10/31/2009, -0/+8XBMC Live on the Revo is fine except for two things:
1. getting the built-in wireless-N is a painful hack followed by very poor Linux driver support
2. getting it to work with a Logitech Harmony remote takes more time than I care to waste
That said, my Revo running Win7 Media Center is pretty sweet, and it plays everything HD I can throw at it! - crimpshrine, on 10/31/2009, -1/+9There would be no Boxee without XBMC.
- electricmba, on 11/01/2009, -0/+7Boxee is XBMC for newbs
- bjornski, on 10/31/2009, -1/+8If the United States of Obama is a system where we can all pretty much go out and make neat toys like this on the cheap, I'm going to have a real hard time complaining about it.
Go shake the sand out of your vagina somewhere else. Don't you have a teabagging party to plan? - tbob19, on 10/31/2009, -0/+7Boxee is better for streaming video over the web but XBMC has more organization options therefore making it better for local media and the new DX version (nightly) is much, much faster than the old OpenGL XBMC/Boxee and I have had better luck with subtitles/video/audio support on XBMC.
I do agree with you that compared to the standard XBMC PM3.HD skin Boxee looks much nicer but since the Rapier skin was released the UI is now a non-issue. - 350Zed, on 10/31/2009, -2/+8WDTV, Popcorn Hour, and others fail to realize that a great UI more important as supporting a list of video codecs as long as your arm.
- majortom1981, on 10/31/2009, -0/+5Huh ? Thats wrong. All cable providers here use cablecards. Also you can conenct a cablebox to the pc to get tv into it.
I have been using my xps 410 as a dvr for a while . - Krissam, on 10/31/2009, -1/+6I've been using xbmc on my xbox for streaming pirated tv shows (blame me all you want, or do like me and blame danish tv carriers for being 6months late on their episodes, yay at watching christmas episodes in june) for like 6 years now, don't see myself switching untill i get myself an hdtv :P
- RobPatton, on 10/31/2009, -1/+6Why not just spend 125$ on a WDTVLive, and have even less power, more quiet, and less heat. And you dont do anything but plug it in?
- starvo, on 10/31/2009, -1/+5Pretty cool. I just built one myself using an AS Rock Ion 330 (~330 at NewEgg) and a Logitech Dinovo Mini KB/Mouse combo. (~$123 at Amazon.com). Works perfectly out out of the box, plays 1080p content flawlessly, and no numb-***** was needed to get the Dinovo mini working with XBMC Live, it just plain worked. And that's a damn good thing. :)
Edit: The linux version of XBMC does have full HW/Driver support for the Nvidia graphics on board. Plus a HDMI port.) - bjornski, on 10/31/2009, -0/+4Windows Media Center has been working fine on Comcast for me for ages, and Time-Warner before them. I've never run into a show I can't record to watch later, either.
You don't know what you're talking about. - 350Zed, on 10/31/2009, -0/+41080p H.264 MKV's play beautifully on my Ion-powered Revo using Win7MC.
Boxee doesn't support GPU-offload, so it's worthless for use as a real HD HTPC. - Insignis, on 10/31/2009, -1/+5xbox won't play 720p or 1080p HD.
- LeepII, on 10/31/2009, -0/+4Very detailed directions and links, good article.
- SpoBo, on 11/01/2009, -0/+4lol Boxee is basically XBMC with a different skin and a single vision. Take it from me ... XBMC is better. It has all the latest developments and allows for perfect customization. If you want a simpler more streamlined experience though.... Boxee is an excellent choice. But don't dish XBMC because you think Boxee is the best media center software lol :D That's just plain stupid.
- gadgetlust, on 10/31/2009, -0/+3If you're lucky you might be able to score an original Xbox on freecycle. Modchips aren't necessary for most of the revisions of the xbox hardware. You can softmod them or re-flash the onboard BIOS (just need a couple of blobs of solder to write-enable the TSOP, then use an exploit)
Both TVs in our house have original xboxes pulling content from a home server in the basement. These TVs are not huge, so the upconverted SD content looks fine on them. SD media also takes less time to download and requires less space to store. - SpoBo, on 11/01/2009, -0/+3Boxee supports GPU offloading .... on linux only at the moment/ But it'll be on windows & OS X pretty soon I guess. Nice to know though that Win7 does the trick.
- tbob19, on 10/31/2009, -0/+3No problem, make sure to get the latest nightly or you might have aspect ratio issues.
You can find them here: http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=35452
I usually get the kricker build - 350Zed, on 10/31/2009, -1/+4If you like a UI that looks like it was designed in 1990, then you're right... the WDTV is just fine.
- crimpshrine, on 10/31/2009, -2/+5What the hell is XMBC?
FAIL
You don't keep up on things much, XBMC was ported to Linux a year ago! it handles HD fine. - lopsta, on 10/31/2009, -2/+4it doesn't seem to do too bad with HD. the ion platform apparently is surprisingly powerful.
http://gizmodo.com/5204432/acer-revo-and-nvidia-io ...
for 200 bucks you can't complain. plus you have an okay computer on your tv for the casual gamer. - Yage2006, on 11/01/2009, -1/+37mc + mediabrowser > xbmc
Xbmc no support for 64bit OS and no seek bar also a pain to setup.
Mediaportal even I find a much better alternative.
XBMC is nice but there are much better choices out there. - 1uk34dd0, on 10/31/2009, -3/+5I agree with you - Boxee is great. I use it myself under Windows 7 on a "normal" PC with a BluRay drive and a decent spec computer.
I can't see a set-up like this being able to play any real HD content which would be a shame in 2009 when I'd say 720p or above is a must. - bacon_skoda, on 11/01/2009, -0/+2i've not been able to find a usb HDTV stick that can tune as well as a plugin pci card. i would rather have the USB thing work though. right now running through HDhomerun, which is kinda shaky sometimes.
- kgerm, on 11/01/2009, -0/+2at least your trying
- jernomer, on 10/31/2009, -7/+9If you're running a Mac, then Plex is a pretty sweet ride: http://www.plexapp.com
- bacon_skoda, on 11/01/2009, -0/+2newer one is duo core atom and comes with win7
older one is single core. - vism, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2I prefer XBMC with Aeon skin
http://www.aeonproject.com/gallery.html - Juntistik, on 11/01/2009, -3/+5Plex is the old XBMC Mac team that cried about un-standardizing XBMC. Devs are a bunch of whiny kids that could do nothing without the original XBMC souce-code. On top of that Plex is not multiplatform and the dev team could give two ***** less about Linux and Windows. I have no respect for them. They should build their code from scratch since they hate the XBMC team so much.
- bjornski, on 10/31/2009, -0/+2Awesome, thanks tbob19 :) Downloading as I type this.
- 1uk34dd0, on 10/31/2009, -0/+2I'm in teh UK so neither have Netflix or Hulu anyway. Have found BBC iPlayer HD channel to be fine on my current media centre (which is of average spec) but yes, would only be semi confident about it with a tiny system like this.
- bjornski, on 10/31/2009, -0/+1DX version? Thanks for that bit of info, I'm off to start a download. :)
- cspyr0, on 10/31/2009, -1/+2But until GPU's can be used for flash, good luck with streaming hulu or netflix on that thing (it does work, it's just slow and sometimes choppy).
- CocodaMonkey, on 10/31/2009, -0/+1A first gen xbox is bigger then this. Also the HW is limited, it can't really play HD files. If you want to keep your HD files in mpeg format you can play 720P on a first gen xbox but if you use mkv or divxs files it can't handle it.
So it all depends what you want, if you just play standard def files you could pick up a first gen xbox for <50$, softmod it for free and run XBMC just fine. Most people want HD playback though. - jernomer, on 10/31/2009, -2/+3Yikes, someone's a little testy...
- WhipkickeN, on 10/31/2009, -1/+2Aww, can't buy it in canada. Newegg.ca doesnt have it. The only one being sold in canada is the newer one for like $400. I was about to buy one..
- EmperorAwesome, on 10/31/2009, -1/+2Not super tiny, but even after the modchip wouldn't an xbox still be way cheaper?
- gellfex, on 10/31/2009, -0/+1With a USB video capture card and Snapstream BTV it would do analog DVR duty too, at a fraction the size and noise of my current Snapstream box. It might need an external drive too, even DVD mpeg quality eats drive space at > 2.5 gb/hr.
- ZooMigo, on 11/01/2009, -1/+2As part of my project to move away from DirecTV, I just built a box almost identical to this - I used a Zotac IonITX-A board in an M350 case with 4G of ddr2-800 ram and a a 160g 2.5" hdd, and XBMC-live (with a few tweeks). I originally wanted to run off a flash drive but have been tweeking with it too much.
I am extremely happy with my setup. I have a backend server running TVersity to stream video (converts flv to mpeg), utorrent, Hauppauge PVR2250 and most everything stored (or converted) to h264/stereo, 720p files. Hardest part has been getting the wife to learn to use it, but she resisted TiVo at first. I think once she understands how this works it will be great. - SpamDog, on 10/31/2009, -2/+3Does XBMC have a DVR function yet?
If not I think I am going to stick with Mythbuntu - 1uk34dd0, on 10/31/2009, -1/+2Ummm, now I'm tempted - could be a nice Christmas present for myself! Thanks for the link :)
- richIsBored, on 11/01/2009, -0/+1You can almost run XBMC on a beagleboard now...
http://xbmc.org/theuni/2009/10/23/xbmc-on-arm-gles ...
The rendering performance isn't quite up to snuff yet but it's the smallest and quietest HTPC I've ever seen. - balthisar, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1Hey, I can finally replace my three original Xboxes! Seriously, I think I'll build one and see what I get out of it.
- motang, on 10/31/2009, -0/+1I have something similar with an Asus EeeBox and Boxee, and love it.
- crimpshrine, on 11/02/2009, -1/+1There is no need for a 64bit OS with a media player backend.
Just because 64 is greater then 32 does not mean it will make EVERYTHING faster. - Drizzit, on 10/31/2009, -2/+2Yes anything that can use a cablecard is fine. Only one problem, how do you get it off your media center PC to playback on a portable device? Can you toss it on a USB key and use it on another computer? Doubtful, because anything that uses a cablecard per agreement is laced with DRM and thus useless except on the device it's recorded to.
As it stands only OEM solutions exists, perhaps my comment should of said "Homebrew DVR's" are useless in the US. -
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