[mythtv-users] xbox mythtv

[Neil Davidson]

You are also going to get a performance hit with USB, especially as it is
only USB1.1

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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Joe Votour
Sent: 21 November 2004 17:52
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] xbox mythtv


MythTV would support anything that looks like a V4L
(Video4Linux) device.  From the documentation for
those USBVision drivers, it appears that they do
provide a V$L interface.

(Rest of this not necessarily targetted to you, but
for anybody who wishes to use the XBox as a capture
device.)
Remember, the XBox is a 733MHz (I think, it's
somewhere around there) Pentium III with only 64MB of
RAM.  I have serious doubts that you'd be able to run
the backend, frontend, mysql, etc. and be able to
capture a stream over USB given those memory
requirements.  You'd be constantly hitting swap space
which would kill the performance.

Also, where would you store the recordings on an XBox?
 You'd have to swap that hard drive out for a bigger
one (unless you went with NFS, which would probably
degrade the performance for capturing even further).

-- Joe

--- Matt Picker <mpicker21 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Linux will support many usb analog tuners in fact.
> Google for usbvision drivers and you will find
> support
> for a good size list of usb tuners.  I have been
> trying to get my ATI TV usb to work with these
> drivers
> but i'm not smart enough.  If anyone is familiar
> with
> these drivers would you please give me a hand?
>
>
>
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