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Minimyth

Minimyth is a small linux distro containing Mythfrontend and some plugins, designed to be run on Intel, X86_64 and EPIA motherboards supporting hardware acceleration such as VDPAU (Nvidia) and XvMC (Openchrome) thus allowing small fanless frontends

It can be downloaded from here.

Advantages over a Standard OS Install

• Diskless operation (no noisy HDD system runs in memory)

• Can boot from PXELinux over network from Backend

• Small footprint (<70 MB)

• Fast booting

• Single point text config file, allowing easy reinstalls, new MythDB etc without upsetting your setup

• Video offloading combined with low overhead allows use of fanless CPU's (100% silent)

• Nvidia Proprietary driver with VDPAU

• All VIA EPIA hardware (e.g. Via XvMC acceleration) is supported

• Mplayer, VLC & Xine built in as standard

• LIRC drivers are included

• Very helpful support forums and package builder

Disadvantages over a Standard OS Install

• No Myth Archive as this is a heavy set of libraries and scripts

Howtos

Frontend with PXE Network Boot, Samba/Cifs, tftp

To Do HERE

• Add details on how to add libdvdcss (standard if you build yourself, but has to be added for precompiled
• Add walkthrough, building from source (garchive), inc what make options etc

Other Notes

Minimyth Main Links

Minimyth Main Website
Documentation, explaining all options in minimyth.conf
Minimyth Downloads
Minimyth Forum