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My Ubuntu Beryl setup...
raptorman
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I got my Ubuntu upgraded to 7.04(Feisty Fawn) and installed beryl
and it looks bloody great
Here's a little vid, quality is not fantastic but you get the idea...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uk4cPR8TuE
This machine is going to be a media centre/TV server eventually
when I can afford the TV card and a router.
and it looks bloody great
Here's a little vid, quality is not fantastic but you get the idea...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uk4cPR8TuE
This machine is going to be a media centre/TV server eventually
when I can afford the TV card and a router.
"Gort, klaatu barada nikto"
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves”
!ǝʞoɹq sʇı 'dןǝɥ
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves”
!ǝʞoɹq sʇı 'dןǝɥ
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If you want to be using it as a media centre then ditch beryl and just use MythTV.0
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Feisty Fawn has the MythTV backend built in
but I don't have the equiptment to set it up
yet so fancied trying Beryl and am well impressed.
I will probably go with MythTV but LinuxMCE
looks very good aswell."Gort, klaatu barada nikto"
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves”
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Looking good, is it a high spec pc that you're using ?0
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Looking good, is it a high spec pc that you're using ?
No mate, had it about 4 years.
2.8ghz P4
ATI RADEON 9600
512MB Ram
160GB HD
nothing that special really, just got a new gaming machine
so decided to put the old one to good use."Gort, klaatu barada nikto"
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves”
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Feisty Fawn has the MythTV backend built in
but I don't have the equiptment to set it up
yet so fancied trying Beryl and am well impressed.
I will probably go with MythTV but LinuxMCE
looks very good aswell.
FF doesn't have the mythtv backend built-in, but it is in the repositories like most other Linux software.
If you just want a mythtv box i'd recommend mythbuntu - it's a cut down respin of FF but with all the crap taken out that you don't need with a simple mythtv box. It's only just been released, but is done by the guy who packages mythtv for ubuntu - so it should work fine.
Beryl is lovely though, you're right. It may seem like a gimmick but the 3d cube thing is really nice and gives a user a visual cue as to what's going on, which makes using my mythtv box easier (I have myth on one desktop and fullscreen firefox on another)
edit: p.s. - regarding the tv card. Are you going to use a dvb one? If so then i'd avoid any of the dual tuner ones at the mo - the hauppauge one doesn't work properly under Linux yet (it crashes the machine when retrieving EIT data) and another PCI Express one we have at work doesn't work under Linux at all. Any older cards will be fine though.0
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