[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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