Xbox as Stand-Alone PVR
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Xbox as Stand-Alone PVR
When I wondered about this a while back, I bounced the idea off the nice folks at SmartXX-- what's the feasibility of an all-in-one-box PVR solution using Freevo and a USB TV-in card?
It was suggested that because the Xbox USB is a 1.1 (and not a 2.0) type, that this setup would be too slow.
You can see the discussion here:
http://www.smartxx.com/forum/thread.php ... d=611&sid=
I think this will be way cool, but what say you about this performance concern?
It was suggested that because the Xbox USB is a 1.1 (and not a 2.0) type, that this setup would be too slow.
You can see the discussion here:
http://www.smartxx.com/forum/thread.php ... d=611&sid=
I think this will be way cool, but what say you about this performance concern?
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All USB 1.1 TV tuners work this way anyway, as there is not enough bandwidth to send uncompressed video down the cable. It has to be compressed first (generally far too much) The USB 2.0 tuners also compress te video first, but not to such a high degree. USB 2.0 is obviously out of the question on Xboxmandoman wrote:Any PVR solution for MCE will need some sort
of external MPEG encoder
If you keep an open mind, will your brain fall out?
Xbox as Stand-Alone PVR
Since this is my first post I would first just like to thank ShALLaX for his hard work and expertise with GentooX.
I’m currently using a Hauppage WinTV-PVR USB2 with the excellent user space driver found at http://pvrusb2.dax.nu/ and the basically functional GLOTV by Björn Danielsson.
The performance I get with a natively installed GentooX is not going to beat a TiVo but it is functional and you can record alot more TV then you can with a VHS.
Once GentooX is up to version 2.6.x I’ll be trying the http://justiceforall.free.fr/pvrusb2.html drivers and MythTV
I’m currently using a Hauppage WinTV-PVR USB2 with the excellent user space driver found at http://pvrusb2.dax.nu/ and the basically functional GLOTV by Björn Danielsson.
The performance I get with a natively installed GentooX is not going to beat a TiVo but it is functional and you can record alot more TV then you can with a VHS.
Once GentooX is up to version 2.6.x I’ll be trying the http://justiceforall.free.fr/pvrusb2.html drivers and MythTV
usb DVB-T tuners
Hi Shallax,
Great work, I'm very impressed by it!
There are a number of PAL USB 1.0 DVB-T digital TV tuners available in the UK which are supported by Linux (specifically by the Linux DVB drivers):
Twinhan VisionPlus VisionDTV USB-Ter DVB-T Device (VP7041)
KWorld V-Stream XPERT DTV - DVB-T USB
HAMA DVB-T USB device
more info and drivers here:
http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/lin ... 00027.html
hope this is some use/interest?
Gizmomelb
Great work, I'm very impressed by it!
There are a number of PAL USB 1.0 DVB-T digital TV tuners available in the UK which are supported by Linux (specifically by the Linux DVB drivers):
Twinhan VisionPlus VisionDTV USB-Ter DVB-T Device (VP7041)
KWorld V-Stream XPERT DTV - DVB-T USB
HAMA DVB-T USB device
more info and drivers here:
http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/lin ... 00027.html
hope this is some use/interest?
Gizmomelb
Another USB 1.1 DVB-T box....
Hi,
I would also like to use my xbox as a combined frontend and backend. i use a Avermedia AverTV DVB-t USB2.0 box. It is usb 2.0 capable but will deliver the mpeg 2 stream fine through my laptop's usb 1.1 port. Along with an xbox controller -> usb converter it should work fine with it's (2.6.x) kernel driver. Avermedia even supply the linux driver!
Here is the linux info from their website (http://www.averm.co.uk/avermedia/aver/p ... asp?show=2)
"AVerTV DVB-T USB 2.0" is now supported by the Open Source DiBUSB
Linux driver. Instructions for setting up the DiBUSB Linux drivers
could be found at
http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettc ... -usb-howto
Other web pages for your reference:
1. dvb-kernel & dvb-apps - http://linuxtv.org/
2. http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettc ... te=dvb-usb
3. xine - http://xinehq.de/
4. mpeg2dec - http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/
5. dvbsnoop - http://dvbsnoop.sourceforge.net/
I would imagine for things to run smoothly memory usage would be at a premium, maybe alternative mysql/qt widget set/libc for embedded systems might help here.
Willski
I would also like to use my xbox as a combined frontend and backend. i use a Avermedia AverTV DVB-t USB2.0 box. It is usb 2.0 capable but will deliver the mpeg 2 stream fine through my laptop's usb 1.1 port. Along with an xbox controller -> usb converter it should work fine with it's (2.6.x) kernel driver. Avermedia even supply the linux driver!
Here is the linux info from their website (http://www.averm.co.uk/avermedia/aver/p ... asp?show=2)
"AVerTV DVB-T USB 2.0" is now supported by the Open Source DiBUSB
Linux driver. Instructions for setting up the DiBUSB Linux drivers
could be found at
http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettc ... -usb-howto
Other web pages for your reference:
1. dvb-kernel & dvb-apps - http://linuxtv.org/
2. http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettc ... te=dvb-usb
3. xine - http://xinehq.de/
4. mpeg2dec - http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/
5. dvbsnoop - http://dvbsnoop.sourceforge.net/
I would imagine for things to run smoothly memory usage would be at a premium, maybe alternative mysql/qt widget set/libc for embedded systems might help here.
Willski
Still working after all these years
Hello and Welcome
Sounds like you could get this to work pretty well, but just remember you would need to go native for 2.6.x
Let me know if you get MythTV going and then I may we try an upgrade
GLOTV record on 2.4.x still works just fine for me. but its a pain to program so I just let it do its thing and leave it alone, like it still records BBC2 every Sunday night even when there is no Top Gear on.
I still never use it for playback and if MS ever upgrade the Xbox 360 codec files maybe I can use that to view the files......maybe I need to spend some cash and get the PS3
Sounds like you could get this to work pretty well, but just remember you would need to go native for 2.6.x
Let me know if you get MythTV going and then I may we try an upgrade
GLOTV record on 2.4.x still works just fine for me. but its a pain to program so I just let it do its thing and leave it alone, like it still records BBC2 every Sunday night even when there is no Top Gear on.
I still never use it for playback and if MS ever upgrade the Xbox 360 codec files maybe I can use that to view the files......maybe I need to spend some cash and get the PS3