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Installation issues / Re: Tuners and virtualization

« on: July 21, 2008, 05:36:38 pm »

Any news here?
Basically that's my setup too, I'll be more detailled about the hardware I bought for my project.
Since my semester ended today, I'll have more time on my hands to work on it ..

Any progress there?

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Users / DVB-C Card on 771 Mainboard?

« on: February 11, 2008, 01:32:43 am »

Hi there.
I'm planning my setup right now, and I'm not really sure what to buy. LinuxMCE is one part of my project, but it doesnt end there, that's why I will setup it in xen (under fedora werewolf)
Now I do have a problem. Since I need a lot of performance for a few of my projects, I'm going to go to the 771 standard, and buy a quadcore 2,4 ghz processor.
But most of the 771 mainboards don't really have too many PCI Slots, so I have a problem getting dvb-c cards in. so my question is.. would you use another computer, just for the TV part ? And what would I need for that one? Performance-wise.
Another solution would be USB interfaces for the cable.

So in conclusion:
1. Would you use a own computer to build the TV interface in my home.
2. Can anyone recommend DVB-C Cards ? USB or PCI ? I'd like to have 4 possible streams, so I guess twin tuners would be great (I think that's how they're called)

Alright.. that's it for now. Thanks in advance.

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Users / Re: Media Storage Idea

« on: January 03, 2008, 02:33:24 pm »

In the system I'm going to set up, I was planning on using a Fedora 8 Xen Dom0, I want to set up one Xen DomU using Openfiler as my storage system (crypted with truecrypt), and share the storage in a virtual NAS (and a real NAS to the MDs) - the LinuxMCE will run in a DomU as well.

So this topic is quite interresting to me. Especially the one parts about big partitions - because I'm planning on putting 4 TB drives into a raid 5 - and using it as one big partition.
The other thing I'm interested in, is the 3ware controller. I planned on getting a 3WARE 9550SXU-12.

Could you guys be more specific about those problems you were talking about? Since that could throw over a big part of my project...

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Users / Re: 0710 beta 2 available

« on: December 26, 2007, 04:47:56 am »

I invested a few hours of trying, but sadly didnt get it to run ..
I followed all the instructions on the page you gave me (thanks for that tho), but the server doesnt really care about the usbstick when booting. I told him to boot it, but he doesnt ..
I'm trying a few other things now..

So right now sadly no success.

Any news on the 3.9 GB Version ?

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Users / Re: 0710 beta 2 available

« on: December 25, 2007, 11:22:52 pm »

Hello everyone.
I visited the page every day for the last month or so, desperately waiting for the release of 0710. Now I can't install it, because I too don't have the right dvd burner for it.
What I have tho, is a 12 GB big USB stick, and my server's bios supports booting from usb harddrives.

I don't have a floppy drive, and I don't really understand how I can make the thing bootable.
Does anyone have a clue how I can "burn the iso" to the usb stick ? I googled a lot, and I found some instructions, but I don't really get it.
The missing floppy drive is a big problem in that context...

Maybe someone knows a way - might be interesting for others too.

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Users / Re: PSP as Orbiter

« on: December 13, 2007, 03:38:42 pm »

Hi there.
Any news on the project ?
I planned something similar, and found this post, so I thought I'll just ask ..

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE and Thin Clients

« on: December 13, 2007, 03:28:47 pm »

The psp does have a wlan adapter integrated. I'm thinking about writing a control interface in php that I'd  access with the psp. I've never done any c programming tho, which is the language you can develop psp programs in.

But I'll keep you up to date with my progress.

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE and Thin Clients

« on: December 10, 2007, 01:02:21 am »

I'm using full virt. Define the machine with the Kubuntu iso as a cdrom. Fire up and install kubuntu. Copy over Kubuntu, LCME 1&2 and the extracted installer. Install LCME with Orbiter and Core and away you go.

I wish I could .. no VT on my test-server.. so I have to wait with this test until I have my real server.
My whole project is going way over my head .. haha. I love it.

My newest idea is - using a psp as remote. I'll blog all that stuff soon, my whole concept could be interesting for others maybe.

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Developers / Re: Using XBox as an MD

« on: December 08, 2007, 08:52:47 pm »

Hi there - looked into this topic, because I think it still is interesting to use XBOXs as MDs .. Did you continue working on that project ? Maybe you could tell us how it went in the last time..
Would be a cheap and great way..

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE and Thin Clients

« on: December 08, 2007, 08:36:41 pm »

Hi there again.

daballiemo - are you using paravirtualisation or the other option ?
My server doesnt support the other option, because it doesnt have the vanderpool thing.

And in paravirtualisation I can't get it to install .. but maybe I'm the mistake .. maybe you could give me a little more info on how you installed it exactly. For instance - you said, you set up a new virtual machine and installed then ?
What did you use as install source in the xen ui ?

Thanks for your help.

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE and Thin Clients

« on: December 07, 2007, 03:41:34 am »

Alright ... downloading Fedora right now.. let's see if I can set that up

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE and Thin Clients

« on: November 30, 2007, 01:54:54 am »

Hello everyone, and especially you daballiemo

Can't help you with anything, I'm afraid, since I'm new to all of this, and especially to LMCE - but I'm thrilled at you setting it up in xen, since I planned to do that.
Did you document that somewhere, or are you going to write some kind of tutorial or somethign ? That would be awesome.