Practical Way for Porting MP to Linux

[stoked]

Has anyone tried the MythTV client functionality in XBMC? I only want TVServer on linux since I have other requirements that would run better on linux for my server. I'm actually looking for a Windows frontend client + linux backend server setup but haven't been able to find anything.

Seems the Mediaportal client to MythTV server project never left the ground. If I had any coding abilities I'd try and help but I don't. I guess I'll have to look at Xen with an Intel VT-d mobo and running TVServer on a DomU XP install. I will post my results.

[joho500]

LinuxMCE seems promising. The core (server) runs on Kubuntu and it is possible to access it with a Windows PC or even even a PC with no OS installed. I haven't had the time to explore it but it looks good.
MediaPortal is very nice with loads of features and I use it daily. But it's a shame you need MS Windows for it.


Cheers Joost

[stoked]

I still haven't found a frontend that I like better than Mediaportal. XBMC possibly with a clean HTPC skin, but personally nothing touches MP. I actually prefer the MP frontend on Windows as it allows for decoder choices and hardware acceleration. But for server duty, Windows XP/Vista doesn't cut it. Nor does W2k3 and it's not even officially supported in MP. I'd like to use LVM/XFS to build a RAID5 array to store all my recordings and media. W2K3 software RAID5 sucks big time and the lower end hardware RAID5 controllers don't offer the features of linux software RAID5 I require. So my current path is virtualization using Intel VT-d which allows hiding PCI/PCIe devices from the host OS and allowing direct access to the guest OS. Only Xen and Parallels beta Server currently support it.

[stoked]

I managed to get TVServer running under a Xen DomU. I bought a Q35 mobo that supports Intel VT-d which allows me to pass-through my PCI DVB card to the Windows DomU (guest). I went through 3 distros and spent practically 2 full days trying to sort it out. Finally managed to get it working on CentOS 5.1 with Xen 3.2.1-testing compiled from mercurial source. Xen only officially supports the 2.6.18 kernel which CentOS 5.1 is still on. Documentation is severely lacking on Xensource and the VT-d support is experimental so I'm expecting to run into some stability issues, but I'm just happy I finally got it running. If others are interested I could write a how-to, but 99.9% of people do not have VT-d enabled motherboards.

[pinguy]

This will be awesome, I was only thinking the other day how great would it be to have a linux version of MP so I could install it on a PS3 running Ubuntu, then I can use my XP PC that has the TV card installed and running MediaPortal TV-Server to stream to my PS3.

I have been playing about with StreamMyGame and its awesome, would you be able to do something like StreamMyGame so that all the video processing is done on the M$ PC? Then that way we could use very underpowerd thin linux clients to run MediaPortal.

[gemx]

According to the website of StreamMyGame that should be possible out-of-the-box.
Just install MP and TVServer on the windows pc and add MP as an application.
I just read the informations on their website, so according to THEIR informations it should work.
Please report back if you "dare" to try.
Another's (including me) might be interested in your findings