[mythtv-users] Kurobox + WinTV-PVR-USB2 = working backend??

[Eric Gilbert]

On 12/12/06, mark mckelvey <memckelvey at comcast.net> wrote:
> Has anyone ever tried to use an external USB tuner/encoder such as
> the WinTV-PVR-USB2 with a debianized Kurobox or Linksys NSLU2 (to
> which you'd also have to add a USB hard drive) to make a backend-only
> server?  I'm thinking my headless backend server with its 3GHz
> processor is a bit power hungry to be left on all the time, but if
> the Kurobox could work it might serve all my myth/server needs :)
>
> Just wondering...

I know at least one person in the kuro forums has it running with
gentoo, but I am currently running into issues with debian.

Here is the link to the thread
http://www.kurobox.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1290&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

configure detects the arch as powerpc, but enables by default altivec
which may be one of the reasons I get an 'Illegal Instruction' when I
try an run the version from the debian-multimedia.org archive, or
compile from source with dpkg-buildbackage with the default options.
The kuroHG does not have altivec

I'm trying out the different configure options, but I don't have
distcc up and running so the compile take a number of hours to
complete so I have not made it very far other.

I'll post details if I'm successful.