From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 27 16:28:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6C9F106564A for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:28:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from decke@bluelife.at) Received: from mail.itac.at (mail.itac.at [213.47.211.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77C0B8FC1B for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:28:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from decke@bluelife.at) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=webmail.itac.at) by mail.itac.at with esmtpa (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1L5jjC-0001vI-OH; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:28:31 +0100 Received: from 83.64.253.201 (proxying for unknown) (SquirrelMail authenticated user decke@bluelife.at) by webmail.itac.at with HTTP; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:28:30 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1227798857.1908.92.camel@localhost> References: <20081127073452.15182879@devil> <20081127062926.147346pp91i6q3k0@econet.encontacto.net> <20081127135804.4961191d@devil> <1227798857.1908.92.camel@localhost> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:28:30 +0100 (CET) From: Bernhard =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=F6hlich?= To: "Vladimir Grebenschikov" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a HTPC! X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:28:37 -0000 On Thu, November 27, 2008 4:14 pm, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote: > On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 13:58 +0100, Anders Troback wrote: > >> yes I'm talking about a Home Theater PC:-) >> >> Well, I'm thinking about something like Linux MCE or Elisa! >> >> I don't have a exact idea about how I want it because I don't know what >> to expect but I'm hoping that I will find something that a can squeeze >> down on a flash card or a usb drive (with TinyBSD or something) and >> have the media on the network! 8GB CF is cheap nowadays so i don't see any sense in striping down the FreeBSD minimum installation. More interesting for me would be hardware and power requirements. You probably can use onboard graphics with newer chipsets and also have high definition. Don't know if FreeBSD already supports to modify the BIOS Wakeup Timer but that would allow mythtv to shutdown and automatically restart the machine only when it is needed. So that could save your machine a lot of idle time. And if you just can't get enough you can try cpu undervolting (sysutils/cpupowerd) and nvclock (sysutils/nvclock) to underclock your nvidia graphics card. > Probably, you need something like, multimedia/mythtv > http://www.freshports.org/multimedia/mythtv > > Looks like port in tree broken, but > there was discussion about port in the list recently > And some patches was suggested > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/126343 I'm sure he knows pretty well about the status of mythtv on FreeBSD as he is the one that helped testing all the mythtv ports on a lot of systems. Thanks for that by the way! -- Bernhard Fröhlich http://www.bluelife.at/