[wellylug] Freevo, follow up to the TIVO demo that Ed gave last year
Pete Black
pete at marchingcubes.com
Mon Jan 31 08:54:55 NZDT 2005
I run Freevo on my Xbox (unmodded, linux installed using MechAssault
hack) - and it seems to work quite well.
It encodes DVDs (though slowly compared to my big athlon) and streams
video across a USB wireless LAN adapter from Samba shares so I can play
the DVDs I have ripped onto my main machine's hard drive on my TV
without running pesky cables.
Xebian for XBox comes with Freevo pre-installed, which makes it a matter
of editing the config file to point it at your media, and running the
application. (which i have put in my x startup script).
See xbox-linux.org for details, it is probably the easiest and cheapest
way to get a Freevo box that really works well as a 'set top box' type
device.
Other things i have done with my XBox:
* used it as a prepay wireless gateway (based on code from
http://www.chillispot.org)
* used it to render frames from Blender animations with drqueue
(http://www.drqueue.org/)
* used it with a USB MIDI interface as a sequencer with Seq24
(http://www.filter24.org/seq24/)
Things I want to do:
* use a USB video-in adapter to capture and encode live video
* attach a Sony eye-toy to it and run a video conferencing app etc.
The X-Box really goes from being a toy to a tool with the addition on
Linux, and its a great way to experiment with Freevo etc. without
breaking the bank.
If there is interest, I could demo some stuff at the next WLUG meeting?
-Pete
>The freevo prject might be worth noting for those who were interested in Ed's
>TIVO demo last year...
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>An interview with a developer here:
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>http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/01/27/freevo.html
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>Freevo wiki here:
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>http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/doc
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>Brent
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