[mythtv-users] Asus EB1501 as frontend

[Steve Greene]

The install was relatively painless.  After a full backup, I converted
the Win 7 data drive from a primary to a logical partition, using
gparted I freed up about 30 GB for Mythbuntu and another 4GB for swap.
Then reformatted the balance back to NTFS. Grub handles the boot
selection chores, even offering a "Vista" partition which should be the
recovery zone (haven't tried it, so I advise everyone to make a full
backup before messing with this).  One caveat, the machine normally uses
a "boot accelerator" setting in BIOS.  I had to disable that, because
the wireless keyboard wouldn't work properly in Grub or to log into
Mythbuntu with it enabled.

Steve Greene


On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 14:28 +1100, glenhawk at optusnet.com.au wrote:
> > Steve Greene <sgreene59 at verizon.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Took me awhile to get everything hooked up to my satisfaction, but this
> > box is a peach.  Small, quiet, runs relatively cool, handles all the
> > HDTV I throw at it.  Serves as a frontend connected to my Sony 40"
> > KDL-40VL160, fed by ethernet.  Audio via HDMI and the mini-SPDIF output
> > jack work flawlessly.  One minor hitch, Mythmusic doesn't play through
> > HDMI, but works fine through SPDIF.  It's reading my flac file archive
> > via NFS from the backend.
> > 
> > Haven't yet tried to configure power management and haven't tried to get
> > the included remote working, but a how-to on xbmc.org points the way.
> > 1080i works well with the VDPAU Normal settings.  I noticed Dolby D
> > being picked up by my HT receiver, so pass-through is working.  Haven't
> > played with the built-in DVD, but I've seen mention of a blu-ray version
> > on the Inter-webs.  
> > 
> > Just for giggles, I'll probably install boxee next.
> 
> excellent!
> I have been ogling this box from a far, wondering how it would go. Do you have it running off the HDD or did you go diskless server?
> Regarding bluray my lounge PC dual boots windows and mythbuntu FE so that I can watch bluray. I have also ripped my blurays on to the HDD and they play fine under mythbuntu. Since there is a bluray version of that EEEbox I'd suggest that your box will be capable.
> Did you say you have audio over the HDMI and the spdif simultaneously? I'll have to look into this because I'd like to have HDMI audio sent to the LCD and spdif to the amp so that I can choose to just watch via the LCD or to fire up the amp.
> once again, great news.
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