[Cialug] Myth Games

Tony Bibbs tony at tonybibbs.com
Wed Nov 23 09:48:08 CST 2005 

On the same note, a guy here at work has the same problems with a 
similar setup.  He also found his frontends (lowly refurb'ed laptops) 
didn't have enough juice as well.  So, in short, if you go the HD route, 
be willing to spend the big bucks on the hardware.

--Tony

Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> I have a PCHDTV 3000 card.  It needs more processor than I have right now
> AMD Athlon XP3000 or someesuch. To really make it go.  I've successfully
> recorded regular resolution programming off OTA HDTV but not high
> resolution.
> 
> I left off during my game message too.  To play thing like tuxracer you need
> a bit more CPU and graphics capability than most people have in a computer
> for watching TV.
> 
> But, if you are doing HDTV, you may have that much horsepower around.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Champion [mailto:dave at visionary.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 4:49 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Myth Games
> 
> 
> Er... I think I ended that email in mid-thought. Anyway, there are mdk 
> rpm packages for most of the common Myth modules. It's really easy to 
> install & maintain it, so unless you need some custom stuff, why go thru 
> all the pain of building it with Gentoo?
> 
> Speaking of Myth... has anyone investigated HD tuner cards with Myth? My 
> brother was looking at building a Myth box, but wants HD, since he has a 
> HDTV.
> 
> -dc
> 
> David Champion wrote:
> 
>>I'm runnig mythv on Mandriva, it's now part of one of the extended
>>sources (don't recall off-hand if it's in contrib or plf).
>>
>>-dc
>>
>>Tom Pohl wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Personally, I'm a fan of using mythtv RPMs on top of Fedora Core 4.   
>>>http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php When I ran knoppmyth, upgrading
>>>seemed to be quite broken (probably not the case now).
>>>
>>>The only frustration I've had thus far with this configuration is
>>>wanting ffmpeg with aac support so I can create RSS feeds for my  ipod 
>>>:)  If anyone knows where such a pre-compiled beast might exist  I'd 
>>>be eternally grateful.  I've tried recompiling, but things seem  to be 
>>>more broken than I have time in the day to fix!
>>>
>>>-Tom
>>>
>>>On Nov 22, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Yeah, seems that versions of Knoppmyth break things and I'd rather
>>>>just stick with what I know given how finniky all this stuff can  
>>>>be.  The setup was pretty painful but once I get this working  
>>>>hopefully it'll run for a year or more before I get the upgrade  urge 
>>>>again.
>>>>
>>>>I am, however, using knoppmyth for frontends.
>>>>
>>>>--Tnoy
>>>>
>>>>Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Depends on your machine and whether you are into MAME.
>>>>>I like it to play frozen bubble sometimes.
>>>>>Otherwise....
>>>>>Is there a reason you went the gentoo way instead of knoppmyth?   
>>>>>Knoppmyth
>>>>>puts games moives, dvd ripper mythphone mythweb - just gads of
>>>>>stuff on
>>>>>without any effort.  Then it's just up to you to tune it and load  
>>>>>any other
>>>>>video drivers etc. you may need.
>>>>>-nate
>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>From: Tony Bibbs [mailto:tony at tonybibbs.com] Sent: Tuesday,  
>>>>>November 22, 2005 8:46 AM
>>>>>To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>>>>>Subject: [Cialug] Myth Games
>>>>>Is Myth Games worth the work?  I grabbed whatever the default  
>>>>>version of xmame is from Portage and when I go to the games  submenu 
>>>>>it complains that the version of xmame isn't supported.   Then I got 
>>>>>to thinking it may not be worth fixing the problem,  then I got to 
>>>>>thinking it would be 'cool' if for no other reason  the simple 
>>>>>selfish geek satisfaction. Anybody else using Myth Games?
>>>>>...and is there a way to figure out what version of xmame will  work 
>>>>>with   Myth 0.18?
>>>>>--Tony
>>>>>Bryan Baker wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Or - do what is considered best practice on the platform and
>>>>>>leave  root
>>>>>>alone, and sudo any commands that need root priv's. most of the   
>>>>>>time that ammounts to "sudo vi smb.conf" or whatever.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>On Nov 21, 2005, at 9:07 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Or you can do sudo -s and get a root shell that way too
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Dan
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 20:59 -0600, Tom Pohl wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>sudo passwd root
>>>>>>>>to set root's password and then you can su like any other box :)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>-Tom
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On Nov 21, 2005, at 8:57 PM, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Ok, this is the first time I've done something like this on
>>>>>>>>>OSX.  I need root priv's but can't seem to get it.  FWIW this  
>>>>>>>>>is a new box...what do I need to do?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>--Tony
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>You can change the share name it exports from osx box with.   
>>>>>>>>>>I  don't remember off top of my head on the regular desktop  
>>>>>>>>>>if
>>>>>>>>>>you can do it easily, but worst case since you have your  share 
>>>>>>>>>>already setup,  just edit /etc/smb.conf and change the  share 
>>>>>>>>>>name.  You'll have to reboot or just restart samba  services 
>>>>>>>>>>with SystemStarter restart samba. Dan
>>>>>>>>>>On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 19:47 -0600, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>I've got a mostly working MythTV box on Gentoo.  I'd like to
>>>>>>>>>>>simply mount my iTunes library on my OSX box from Gentoo.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>First problem is samba shares don't seem to like spaces in
>>>>>>>>>>>the name.  Or , at least, I don't know how to make them work  
>>>>>>>>>>>via fstab.  The file system I'm trying to mount is:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>//server/user/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>If there is a way to put that in fstab please holla.  I  
>>>>>>>>>>>tried
>>>>>>>>>>>a few different things ("iTunes\ Music", etc) to no  avail.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>My other thought was to simply symlink //server/user/
>>>>>>>>>>>MusicSymLink to the iTunes folder but that gives errors  about 
>>>>>>>>>>>a bad share name.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>Ideas?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>--Tony _______________________________________________
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>>>>>>Bryan Baker
>>>>>>President
>>>>>>Des Moines Macintosh Users Group
>>>>>>http://www.dmmug.org
>>>>>>president at dmmug.org
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