[mythtv-users] Xbox as FE

[James Pattinson]

Hi All

I am currently using minimyth on an EPIA-M as my frontend, and it 
generally works really well. However the connection to my TV is only 
Composite-out so the quality is not too hot (my TV doesn't do S-Video).

I do have an Xbox running XBMC connected to my TV via SCART and the 
quality when playing videos is great so I'd like to investigate the 
possibility of using it as my front end. Of course another benefit of 
this would be that I get remote control functionality for free, as I'm 
using a wireless keyboard at the moment.

However, most of the information I've found on the web is out of date, 
and the instructions at http://bit.blkbk.com/ refer to Xebian 1.0.3 
which I cannot locate at all.

So with this in mind, can anyone share their experiences of setting this 
up? Can the xbox hardware handle the load? My back end is saving the DVB 
transport stream straight to disk and i'm not transcoding anything.

Pros / Cons?

Cheers!

James