[TriLUG] Re: X-box

[Michael S Czeiszperger]

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> From: Chris Merrill <cmerrill at nc.rr.com>
> I must be missing something here...what, exactly, would be the point
> of putting Linux on an XBox (besides "because it's there")??  Could
> you still run the games on it?  What else would you use it for?
> Does it have DSP hardware on it that could make it useful as a
> TiVo, for instance?
>

I wonder if there's an open source alternative to TiVo? I checked on 
Freshmeat, and there's a couple of interesting projects, but nothing that 
would reproduce the functionality of TiVO.

TiVO Linux 2.1.24 Kernel Mods
http://freshmeat.net/projects/tivosoftwaresourcecode/

Web Interface to TiVO Functionality
http://freshmeat.net/projects/tivoweb/

The only other remotely related project I found was the Open Meta Archive
http://freshmeat.net/projects/oma/

Its a multimedia database that could architecturally at least act as the 
repository for video.

Coming up with a solution to duplicate TiVO's functionality would conceivable 
require three parts:

1. Getting the TV schedule and figuring out what to record.
2. Getting the video digitized.
3. Storing the video and playing it back (a database)

I've got a video card that has a built-in TV receiver working with Video4Lin. 
If we could just figure out how to get TV schedules from the internet, 
perhaps by parsing the TVGuide or Yahoo sites, then storing and playing back 
the video wouldn't be such a big deal.

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Michael S Czeiszperger
czei at webperformanceinc.com

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