Minimyth
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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