What's the advantage of MCE over XBMC

ToeRag · Post by **ToeRag** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 4:55 pm

I've been away from this site for awhile; I hacked/installed gentoox on both my xboxes - but never really found a functional use for the abilities of a linux OS running on my XBOX -

I now see that MCE is an optional install - and I'm wondering what does this sysem have over XBMC 1.1 ? One of the complaints I always had with gentoox was how long it took to boot. That wouldn't be a problem if I had a system that I used and needed for a specific funcction that I couldn't do on my Win2k box.. But that didn't seem to be the case. anyway...

back to my origianl question, XBMC boots up from a cold start and running a python script can be playing a playlist in about 15secs!

Am I just missing something obvious here?

Post by **ShALLaX** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 4:58 pm

Its legal.

ToeRag · Post by **ToeRag** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 5:18 pm

ShALLaX wrote:Its legal.

Ahh! got-it... I knew there must have been something, I was hoping it wasn't just that though.

Post by **ShALLaX** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 11:28 pm

How about DVD ripping.. and the realistic chance of being able to run a TV card from your xbox?

Chinny · Post by **Chinny** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 2:45 pm

Getting a tv card up and running is my primary reason for loading gentoox onto my xbox. I'd be willing to loan my MSI Vox USB2.0 tuner to you (Shallax) if you think you could get drivers working.

Post by **ShALLaX** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:50 pm

Hmm, I've tried a Hauppauge PVR USB2... but cant seem to get the drivers working

Not sure if yours would.

Chinny · Post by **Chinny** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:58 pm

Which kernel are you using?

Post by **ShALLaX** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:59 pm

2.6.10, at the time I tested it.

Chinny · Post by **Chinny** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:07 pm

Did the module probe at all? Or were the drivers useless? I think the guy who's been working on the haupauge drivers updated them recently.

Post by **ShALLaX** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:08 pm

They loaded into the kernel fine... they just didnt work. I tried reading from /dev/video0... and i got errors :\

Chinny

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