Project Progress Report Student: David Lynam Supervisor: Peter Corcoran Student: David Lynam Supervisor: Peter Corcoran XBOX PVR SYSTEM

Project Description The use of a Pc as a MythTv server and to convert an X-Box into a MythTv client Consumer Electronics Research Group has developed middleware for home networking called Unihome Does not currently support PVR systems To attempt to integrate the operational PVR system to the Unihome middleware layer

Progress Overview Ubuntu Linux IP Tunnel Timeline Changes Difficulties Gentoo understanding Gateway setup WinTV drivers Irish Channel Listings

Gentoo Difficult for beginners Had difficulty setting up Gateway through Gentoo Spent too much time at it As a result changed to Ubuntu Ubuntu Friendly to beginner Easy to install using synaptic packet manager SUDO

Gateway Setup NUIG Network Gateway Subnetwork Route network card 2 to network card 1 Give subnetwork terminals an IP address Route the terminal IP addresses to the network card 2 Test by pinging

MythTV installation ckend_Frontendhttps://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_Edgy_Ba ckend_Frontend Installing capture card Install XMLTV Install MYSQL Configure MythTV Channel configuration Mailing List

Capture Card The small issue (Cd Drivers) Small mistake!!! Specs and Info MPEG-2 encoder 1-2 Gigs per hours of hard drive DVD rates = 8Mbits/sec Pal format at 25fps DVD quality of 1 hour typically 2Gig

XMLTV Utilities to manage your TV viewing Based on XML Stores listings in XMLTV format for seperation Useful operations (filters) Grabbers for many countries

MYSQL Open source Database software Used to Store info from MythTV (channel listings) Need to allow remote access Consistent fast performance and reliability Runs on more than 20 platforms

Done to date Installed Ubuntu/Gentoo Set up gateway to network Installed capture card device Installed a frontend/backend MythTV machine Demonstrated capture live tv,pause and rewind Installed a separate frontend machine

Left To do Setup IP tunnel and connect frontend to backend Mod the XBOX Install Linux and MythTV frontend on XBOX Reverse engineer MythTV Investigate integration with Unihome

TimeLine Jan 31 st - Complete IP tunnel and Mod XBOX Feb 10 th – Install Linux on XBOX Feb 20 th – Install MythTV frontend on XBOX Feb 28 th – Demonstrate MythTv on XBOX March – Reverse engineer MythTv March – Investigate integration with Unihome

Initial Timeline End of September: Install Gentoo Linux Early October: MythTv running on Pc –Demonstrate video capture October: Modify Xbox and install Gentoo Linux November: Convert pc to Myth Server and client machines November: Install Myth Client on Xbox December: EXAMS End of Dec/January: Unite Client and server January: Study Myth protocol and Unihome achitecture Febuary: Customise MythTv and integrate with Unihome

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