GBPVR for Linux

[mvallevand]

I would refer to the geexbox project for what hardware will play what on linux with mplayer.

I like geexbox and have one at home that I can run, but I personally won't be targetting any binary distributions. That won't stop others from taking this on.

Would MVPMC be capable of polling a local drive for media also?
A DVD or disc containing archived recordings?
I know it is an MVP replacement & you can't do that with the MVP.
Well, you can poll the drive on the server if it's mapped in the library.

mvpmc for the mvp can do this via cifs/nfs shares in its native mode. In emulation mode there is an ununused potential to use direct access rather then Hauppuage protocol and there is also a possibility of extending the Hauppauge protocol to pass URI's instead of DOS 8.3 filenames, but that is for the future. I don't think DVD ISO access will ever be a possibility on the MVP but in other environments that already support it I don't see why not.

Martin

[UKGuest44]

I wonder if you could perhaps use nlite to tune a tiny version of XP which pretty much only includes the components that GB-PVR needs, no more, and then run it in a vmware virtual server on Linux. You can make Windows XP run with 16mb of ram and 0% CPU usage most of the time with this technique, so theoretically there'd be little overhead of having GB-PVR virtually running.

Not tested it though, just an idea

[nitrogen_widget]

I wonder if you could perhaps use nlite to tune a tiny version of XP which pretty much only includes the components that GB-PVR needs, no more, and then run it in a vmware virtual server on Linux. You can make Windows XP run with 16mb of ram and 0% CPU usage most of the time with this technique, so theoretically there'd be little overhead of having GB-PVR virtually running.

Not tested it though, just an idea

It would be much simpler to just take a linux distro that lets you roll your own live! CD & boot off of that or install it to HD for personal tweaking.
Less layers.

Plus, it's license free.

[pBS]

i already made a live winxp/gbpvr disk that is the most minimal install possible really..runs really well on almost no ram and runs in vmware but video performace in win/vmware isn't usable..

have you tried playing video in a linux/vmware session yet?
emulation is usually a non-starter cuz of video playback performance..it's hard enough in winblows even with acceleration, much less an emulator..

i had the gblive cd running fine with 128 meg ram.. but 256 or more did help some..

[drugstore_cowboy]

i already made a live winxp/gbpvr disk that is the most minimal install possible really..runs really well on almost no ram and runs in vmware but video performace in win/vmware isn't usable..

Can you list either the services that you left running or those that you removed? Once 1.0 comes out I plan on rebuilding my machine and I am thinking about using nlite to slim XP down as much as possible but would like to avoid the hassles of trying to figure out which services etc I can remove.

Might be worth putting up on the wiki

[pBS]

i didn't remove anything...but it's like a fresh install everytime you boot up..
so imagine installing xp fresh,then .net2 and gbpvr and that's it..[cept for a few codecs]
without all the junk other programs install to make themselves faster at system's expense, xp is surprisingly zippy and light on ram...

and the livecd build kit *is* on the wiki kinda...actually just the files, the link is in the forums..

[_Iz-]

There is tons of stuff GB-PVR does with communicating directly to devices and proprietary driver interfaces etc that just wouldnt be possible under wine.

Could one run GBPVR in client mode under wine?

I'd like to use an appletv as a client but I want to access the recordings on my main GBPVR server and still skip the commercials.

[nitrogen_widget]

Could one run GBPVR in client mode under wine?

I'd like to use an appletv as a client but I want to access the recordings on my main GBPVR server and still skip the commercials.

Reguardless of what mode it's in, GBPVR is still GBPVR & probably won't run in Wine.

I've been playing with this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/epmedia
It's basic, but it works.

Being Python it runs on both windows & linux & I believe you can get Mplayer to recognize comskip files & that works in both Linux & windows also.

I was thinking something similiar to this that could read info from the GBPVR DB & in a live Linux distro would be pretty spiffy.

I'm also teaching myself Python so maybe one day I can figure something out.

[Braklet]

Slightly related: has anybody tried running GB-PVR using the Parallels desktop manager in Mac OS X? Supposedly it'll even run newish PC games.

I'm searching for alternatives to Vista and suspect the free Windows emulators are not quite as advanced as the payware virtual machine environments.

[prouton]

...free Windows emulators are not quite as advanced as the payware virtual machine environments.

Do you realize that the virtual machine environments still require you to own/install a real copy of MS Windows? I ask only because you appeared to be equating Windows emulators with the virtualization products (such as Parallels).