Re: Random questions about Linux + Xbox

On Sunday 24 November 2002 08:01, Angel wrote:
> First the question of how picky it is with cdr media.  I have heard that
> the "Christmas bundle xbox with jet set radio and sega gt" reads cheap cdrs
> very well.  I hope this is the case. =).  Second the debian install guide

That version of the box is being called v1.1, it is a slightly different 
motherboard and BIOS to the original v1.0.  I have had no luck at all with 
CDR or CDRW on any version of the box, probably something to do with my CDRW 
drive.

> says that it needs 10+ gigs to install?  Is that the same for all the
> premade isos available?  Lastly I was wondering  how good output looks to

I have not used Ed's Debian distro (simply because I can't burn the CDs!) 
although many people have had a good experience with it.  On the Mandrake 9 
distro (for which Milosch sent me CDs), it will happily install in an 8GB 
drive, by annexing the top 3G or so.  Note that the FATX filesystem used by 
the native box does not understand nor honour the partition table, if you 
fill the native drive up with >5G of stuff it will start crapping on your 
Linux install.  I solve this problem by not using the box in native mode :-)

> the tv.  Im planning on setting one up in my living room running freevo to
> play captured music videos and captured tv shows across a nfs mount to my
> server box.  Does the tv-out introduce any flicker when you are watching
> videos on it?

No, the box issues video at 50Hz (PAL) or 60Hz (NTSC) exactly like broadcast 
television does.  There is nothing to flicker.  TVs have longer decay-time 
phosphor than monitors to try to mask the low refresh rate.  The Conextant 
video encoder chip even does a good job of supressing flicker on text-type 
displays where hugely different intensity levels can be present on adjacent 
video rows that are on the opposite interlace.

Be aware that just recently Oliver managed to get accellerated X up, this is 
necessary for fullscreen playback on mplayer or whatever freevo is using for 
video rendering.  In order to use that right now you need an updated XBE 
loader and edit a few things.  Hopefully in the next few weeks there might be 
an update to the distros to include this stuff?

Freevo is also really interesting, please let us know your experiences with it 
on the box, what setup it needs, etc.

-Andy


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