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| Author: | schmecky [ Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Getting my feet wet |
edit -> oops - this should have been in the KnoppMyth forum - can a mod help me out here? Ok - downloaded the R5F1 and just installed it accepting defaults. Here's the hardware: P4 1.8Ghz / 512MB Radeon 7000 AGP SB Live 320GB IDE DVD RW 100mb Intel NIC Hooked up to a 27" Widescreen HD/LCD display Couple issues: Right now I don't have a tuner for this machine. I wanted to check this out for playback to see how usable this old hardware would be before I upgraded. This is going to be for my bedroom. My primary HTPC is a Vista MCE machine, which has an OTA HT Tuner, and analog cable. It's on a gigabit LAN. To try things out I wanted to access a shared drive on the Vista MCE and try to playback on the MythTV box. I can't see where you can add network storage locations. (Does Myth support Samba out of the box?) Also how do I configure Myth for widescreen display? I know ideally I will want to upgrade at least to a higher end video card, but wanted to see if MythTV would work out as a viable alternative to my Microsoft MCE that I'm currently running on. Thanks! |
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| Author: | psicard [ Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:13 pm ] |
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Quote: Does Myth support Samba out of the box? Myth itself is unrelated to samba - samba is handled by the underlying Linux OS. For more info on Knoppmyth & samba, look here: http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=UsingSambaHowto Quote: Also how do I configure Myth for widescreen display?
Again, it's the underlying Linux (or more specifically xorg) that needs to be configured for widescreen. You'll need to edit your xorg.conf file. There's a decent overview of xorg.conf here: http://www.linux.com/feature/118108 I cannot give you specific instructions though... If you upgrade your video card, I would advise an nvidia-based card. They're more Linux-friendly and there's much more support available. FWIW: You don't have enough horsepower to do HD, but it should be fine for SD. |
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