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Actually it's $15 for 3 months, but they plan on lowering that with the goal being $20 a year.

Still no word on what is being done about this in LinuxMCE yet, but I'm hoping that's just because they are too busy trying to get it out the door before Sep. 1...

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Developers / Re: i was wondering
« on: August 27, 2007, 12:40:49 am »
HD-DVD and Blu-Ray have DRM issues. To be fair so does DVD, but it seems the MPAA has mostly given up on that front...

You can use the remote to control MythTV and its plugins, including MythDVD. One thing to note, however, is that the Myth Transcode Daemon does not get started by default. You can just start it manually rather easily though. The program name is mtd. Just typing mtd in a terminal will get it going. I just added mtd to /etc/rc.local and had /etc/init.d/rc.local start at run level 2. That way it's always running.

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Developers / MythTV, Zap2it, and Schedules Direct
« on: August 26, 2007, 12:24:55 am »
As many of you probably now Zap2it labs will no longer be serving the open source community with TV listing data. As a result Schedules Direct was created to fill this void. In order to ensure Schedules Direct doesn't fail the open source community as Zap2it has (not really their fault) Schedules Direct has imposed restrictions on what applications can use it's service. The exact legal wording is still be discussed, but this is a pivotal moment for LinuxMCE and it should be involved.

LinuxMCE is an non-commercial, open source project itself and as such it shouldn't have a problem getting on the "Approved Applications" list. However, as I understand the TOS, third party vendors selling the core servers would not be approved... unless they sell just the hardware... but that's something that needs to be discussed with the Schedules Direct board. So companies like Fiire would need to have their own contract with Tribune in order to sell complete core servers that actually give TV listings... legally.

It's important to note that LinuxMCE uses the program guide data directly, not just through MythTV, so it must be on the "Approved Applications" list or we would be violating the TOS as it is currently written. Even though LinuxMCE is a distribution and not a single application it does need to be on the list (Even KnoppMyth is on the list).

Another problem is that only the newly released version of MythTV even supports Schedules Direct. This means that we have approximately 1 week (Zap2it stops service Sep. 1) to update MythTV to the latest release, integrate it into LinuxMCE, get LinuxMCE on the approved applications list, and release and update or will will start to loose TV listing data.

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Developers / Re: i was wondering
« on: August 26, 2007, 12:01:40 am »
If you install MythDVD, it can do the transcoding for you. Actually, I would like to see LinuxMCE to better integrate itself with the MythTV plugins and use the internal Myth Player. This would reduce some complexity and broaden the number of developers that can contribute to such functions in LinuxMCE.

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Developers / Re: Nokia 770 Orbiter
« on: August 25, 2007, 04:50:46 am »
I saw that you uploaded linuxmceorbiter-1.1-02_armel.deb a couple days ago so I gave that a try and it worked! It did crash after about 2 minutes, but it's definitely a start. I'm beginning to think that although 2007 Hacker Edition is more stable for some of the apps (like the Opera browser), but more unstable in other areas. I might give the standard 2006 a try and see if that makes the orbiter more stable.

I know that the WiFi connection can cause instability if it temporarily loses connection, but I'm about 6 feet away from my Access Point when I test so I doubt that's the issue.

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Installation issues / Re: DVB-S Tuner in Media Director or Core Only?
« on: August 25, 2007, 02:47:22 am »
It doesn't matter if you connect it to the core or media director. The key is that if you connect it to the media director then you will need to keep the media director on for it to record thing automatically.

I think your main issue would actually be getting the DVB card to work with LinuxMCE... Although MythTV (thus LinuxMCE) supports that card, MythTV has made a lot of changes to get DVB working well that is not included in this version of LinuxMCE... also DVB itself is a pain to setup. I have yet to successfully do this in LinuxMCE or an update standalone version of MythTV. Of course my purpose was to get the FTA HD channels from my cable company, so your experience may be different.

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I'm not sure what you mean by "Admin mode", no such mode exists...

There is an admin website. The website's username and password would be whatever you set it to when you created you users during install.

Also, you can do some administrative fucntions in the terminal. That's what has the username and password of linuxmce/linuxmce. However, that alone won't give you root access (admin access for the windows users). You will need to prepend sudo to whatever command you issue that requires admin access. Then when it propts for a password it's linuxmce.

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Compatible Products & Services / Re: HDMI
« on: August 25, 2007, 02:27:34 am »
It's more of a TV issue. My TV also required a special modeline to get it to work at 1080p. I had to do a lot of googling and tinkering to actually get it to work, but I eventually did.

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Users / Re: Seriously..
« on: August 25, 2007, 02:16:23 am »
Sorry about that. The core is used as a router, so people often call the core the router...

Yes, you can disable your router's dhcp if you are using the Core to serve the internet (needs to network cards). However, that's dependant on how you set things up. What kind of router device and modem to you have? If it's all in one then you need to keep dhcp enabled and just connect the router to network card in your core. However, you won't be able to use anymore of the the network jacks on your router as it would bypass LinuxMCE. If you have a modem and a router then you connect the modem to the external network card in the core and then the router to the internal network card in the core. You would need to disable DHCP on that router, but it would turn it into a switch (just don't use the network port for the external network on the router).

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE in existing MythTV and Asterisk environment
« on: August 25, 2007, 01:55:30 am »
You will need to have Asterisk on you Core, but you can copy your config files over and use them directly. I did that once and then I decided to use the LinuxMCE standard way as LinuxMCE keeps a lot of configuration inforation in its databases that it needs to do some of the cooler things. This was a disruiption in service, but it's the best way really.

As for MythTV... I wish... This is actually a big problem for me. It seems LinuxMCE uses an outdated version of MythTV and is incompatible with the newer releases. However, if your backend is the same version then you can use your existing Myth system. Although you should move the database to the Core.

I almost forgot... the Kubuntu thing is being discussed in the Developer forum. I still don't understand it's rational...

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Users / Re: Seriously..
« on: August 25, 2007, 01:43:44 am »
In reality, Wires are a PITA =/.. My rooms are very far apart and it would take a lot of time and wires for the house to be fully connected.

If that's the case then actually a wired solution is your best bet. The further apart your rooms are, the more likely wireless won't work...

If you disable DHCP on the core it won't allow you to boot diskless, which seems to not be what you want.

You can easily see if your motherboard/network card supports network boot by looking in the bios (you'll likely need to go in there anyhow to tell it to boot via network). Make sure that your integrated network card has the boot rom option enabled (usually in the Integrated Peripherals menu) and then change the boot priority to allow network boot (usually in the Advanced menu). Also some motherboards allow you to press a button (usually F8, but could be F10 or even ESC) on the POST screen (the very first screen on boot) to give you a menu to select how you want to boot (hard disk, network, etc.).

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Developers / Re: Nokia 770 Orbiter
« on: August 25, 2007, 12:07:34 am »
I could swear that I deleted the old version and installed the new one... I'll re-install and see if I just deleted the wrong file on accident... which is definitely possible...

Edit: I just double checked and application manager says I have 2.0.0.45-1 installed... I'm going to re-download and re-install now anyhow and see if that helps...

Edit2: I guess I'll have to do that later as garage.maemo.org seems to be down...

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Users / Re: Can I use my TV tuner box on this?
« on: August 25, 2007, 12:05:53 am »
Yes, it will only stream the video/audio signal to the MCE box and won't retrieve any further information. However, tv program information is captured elsewhere via different services. Most people have been using the Zap2it service, but they will no longer be offering this service to the open source community starting September 1st. As a result I suspect most people will switch to Schedules Direct, which the current version of LinuxMCE doesn't yet support (MythTV doesn't support it yet, but close).

Also, if you have multiple outputs on your tuner then you can have one going to your tv and the other going to MCE; that's what was showed in the video. However, it doesn't look your box does support simultaneous outputs to multiple sources, so that option probably won't work with you. Also, that option isn't really used for guide data and such, but rather to get HD quality video output to your TV.

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Users / Re: Can I use my TV tuner box on this?
« on: August 24, 2007, 08:25:44 am »
If the tuner sends the audio/video via RCA composite cables or an Svideo cable and it can be controlled by IR remote, then it will work in LinuxMCE. However, you will probably need to have LinuxMCE learn the remote commands.

I hope that's what you meant. If you meant that want to install LinuxMCE on the box itself, then no, that's not possible... well, that's not feasible... Boxes such as that would have a lot of proprietary stuff to keep you from stealing the shows you didn't pay for. As a result they usually keep you from doing anything with the internals of the box, or at least make it extremely difficult to do so...

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Developers / Re: Gentoo ebuilds
« on: August 24, 2007, 07:42:43 am »
I was considering doing that as well, but I need to get my system up and running first...

The problem with doing this on Gentoo is that LinuxMCE was designed for Ubuntu and so most, if not all the, auto-configuration would have to be modified to use Gentoo's config files and scripts. Of course you will still have the issues of compiling using different versions of many libraries and programs. This will definitly be more than a small effort...

The first and relatively easy ebuild to create would be the orbiter. Tackling the whole Media Director would be a chore especially considering that LinuxMCE does various sanity checks and monitoring that would have to be modified to support Gentoo. Once that's done doing the core will be easier (mainly because the bulk of the hard stuff was just done), but still a rather large effort. Of course the core should be on Gentoo Hardened, which will have it's own set of issues.

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