User:PaulColby

Having been very impressed by the LinuxMCE Video, I have begun playing with my own LinuxMCE system... I will record my rough thoughts and findings here, and move the relevant ones into the appropriate main pages as they become more than just random notes ;)

My LinuxMCE Wiki Bookmarks

Here are some links to pages within this wiki that I like to refer to often, and/or have trouble re-locating when I do want to refer to them.

• Display Drivers

Hardware

Core / Hybrid Server

Component	Model	Notes
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-K8U-939
Graphics Card	Gigabyte GA-622-32C	nVidia TNT2 32MB - supports UI2 (medium)
TV Tuner 1	LifeView FlyVideo98FM	Not configured yet.
TV Tuner 2	MachSpeed MachTV	Not configured yet.

Laputa (MD)

Laputa is my wife's desktop PC, but by disabling the harddrives (via the BIOS), and enabling LAN booting, it makes a decent temporary media director to play with.

Component	Model	Notes
Motherboard	MSI MS-7061	Supports LAN booting
Graphics Card	Asus V8440	nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4400 - so far, have been unable to get UI2 working

Unnamed (MD)

A media director currently in the process of being build out of spare parts. So far, this MD is not capable of faultless playback... it has some obvious frame-drop when streaming DVD ISO's from the server.

Component	Model	Notes
Motherboard	Compaq UWAVE	A Compaq OEM version of the FIC AZ31 motherboard.
CPU	AMD Duron 750MHz	Not a big performer :(
Graphics Card	Asus TNT2-Vanta rev 1.00	nVidia TNT2 Vanta
Network	3Com 3c905c-tx-m	Managed 10/100 NIC with PXE LAN boot BIOS
Audio	Terratec DMX 1.1, with optional Digital Xtension	Has coaxial and optical in and out... analog works fine out of the box, but I've been unable to get either coaxial or optical out to work - possibly due to a faulty daughter-card though?
DVD Drive	Pioneer DVD-115	16x

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