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Initial Hardware Setup:

Asus M3N78-VM with AMD 955
SPDIF expansion card (Asus SPDIF OUT/COA+OPT)
2 GB DDR3 800 Mhz
3 500 GB HD in a RAID 5 conf (mdadm)
1 320 GB HD boot (1 partition for LMCE, 1 partition for Kubuntu 8.10, both having access to the RAID 5 /dev/md0)
Gyration Keyboard and air mouse
USB-UIRT with a Xantex 284D
Intel Pro 1000 NIC card (internal network)
Bluetooth dongle - Motorola
Hauppauge PVR-150 MCE Edition
Wiimote remote
Philips 37" LCD TV
Yamaha DSP-A1 amplifier
Linksys SPA-3102
Linksys PAP2T-NA (x2)
IP Cam XWP (www.MayGion.com)

Software

Prior: LMCE Beta 1 issues:
- TV overscan (solved)
- Subtitles (not solved)


Now: Beta 2 - time to start all over again - learned with Beta 1.

Installation:

Kubuntu 8.10
-> apt-get update.
-> apt-get upgrade.
-> apt-get dist-upgrade.
-> update Alsa to Alsa 1.0.21-4
All done with the VGA monitor.
LCD TV is also connected to the mobo's HDMI video output.
Running nvidia-settings, LCD TV identified.
After all is done (installations and reboots), KDE shows up, i disconnect the vga cable, hit CTRL-ALT-Backspace and the video output is redirected to HDMI.

First problem: video overscan.
-- Solution: nvidia-settings shows an overscan ruler. Save conf to ~/.nvidia-settings-rc
HDMI Sound works (KDE welcome sound) - it plays on TV speakers.

Second problem: network interfaces are switched - the mobo interface shows as eth1 and the Gb Intel interface shows eth0.
-- Solution: edit file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and change eth1 to eth0 on first entry (mobo interface) and change eth0 to eth1 (Gb Intel interface) - after reboot, it works like it should.

LMCE Beta 2
connect optical cable from the SPDIF Expansion card (the mobo's SPDIF does not shows up) to the Yamaha optical in.
install from internet.
Reboot.
AVWizard: HDMI / 720p / UI2 / Optical Spdif.
Initial setup (Sara).
Ready to use - ksmserver not found.
Monitor attach to VGA, CRTL-ALT-F1, sudo apt-get install ksmserver, dolphin, konsole, and much....
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop - what was still missing, is back again.
also need to run post-install.sh (from new-installer).
Reboot.
LMCE starts again, KDE works... but HDMI sound is gone, but the sound via optical is great.

Third problem: some files does not play sound.
-- Solution: http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=9194.msg62958#msg62958.

Fourth problem: overscan rises up again....
-- Solution: http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=9567.msg65417#msg65417.

Fifth problem: disk access stucks, freezing the system.
-- Solution: none, because it was my mistake... i didn't realize that the RAID 5 needed time to resync after i transfered almost 450 GB of files, so in fact, it was not a problem. After resync, no more read/write delays.

Sixth problem: SUBTITLES - during some weeks i tryed, blammed, got a hint, but the problem was trivial to solve. It happened due lack of information.
-- Solution: edit /etc/pluto/xine.conf and make sure ui.subtitle_autoload:1 is uncommented
i've also changed misc.spu_subtitle_size:large, so subtitles are readeable.
REBUILD the MD images. REGEN the orbiters. REBUILD AND REGEN, or it will not work.

Seventh problem: H264 mkv and mp4 files plays with no sound, even after renaming to m2ts. After renaming to .m2ts, mplayer is used to play them, subtitles shows up fine, but NO sound.
-- Solution: http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=9653.msg66388#msg66388 - see reply #17
Sound, subtitles and controls works. Best of: do need to rebuild MD and regen Orbiter.


Install the IP Cam and configure motion wrapper and action triggers.
Manufacturer: http://www.maygion.comp/roduct_ui.html.
History and FAQ: http://www.maygion.com.
Really a cheap IP camera Maygion IP-606 (US$ 76.00), but very simple to configure, everything can be done by cgi, except network setup (DHCP or static) and for that you need ocx.exe and M$ windows.
Defined with static IP address and after that, got it working in 10 minutes, following the wikis page: http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/IP_Cameras.
Camera manual: http://www.maygion.com/downloads/20091208/IPCamera%20CGI%20manual.pdf
Snapshots with one line: http://192.168.80.10/snap.jpg?usr=admin&pwd=admin
Triggers not configured yet.

Mythtv with PVR-150.
As i live in Brazil, and the broadcasting system is PAL-M, i've configured live TV and scanned channels. Did not work very well, so, i inputed the channels by hand.
The image looks terrible, with a rainbow colored stripe on botton. Changed the standard to NTSC. Rainbow colored stripe gone, but image looks terrible, making it unacceptable.
So, let's wait until i get more time, will test it under kubuntu 8.10 with mythtv only (other partition) and see what is happening.

TODO:
Interface the IR remote control so i can switch on/off, source selection and control the volume of my amp.
install the SPA-3102 and PAP2T-NA as extensions.
Install Windows CE orbiter on my Ipaq.


LMCE has a fantastic interface, it's a really great project, but trying to reinvent things don't make sense, like renaming / symlinking srt files. If it's goal is to become an appliance like solution, things must be easier or transparent.


to be continued.

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