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lrhorer
Joined: 04 Mar 2008
Posts: 26
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 Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:39 pm Post subject: My house glows at night |
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AMD Athlon X2 6000+ 3.0GHz Dual Core CPU
Asus M2N-VM DVI Motherboard w/ 2G DDR2 800 RAM
Seagate Barracuda 160G EIDE drive
HighPoint RocketRAID 2322 mini-SAS RAID controller
Norco DS-1240 12 Lane Infiniband RAID enclosure
6 (soon to be 7) Hitachi Deskstar 1T SATA drives in 5T RAID 5 Array
D-Link DGE-550T 1000BaseTx Ethernet
Debian "Etch" Linux 2.6 AMD/64 Kernel
TrendNet WebSmart 24 Port Gig switch
Wired LAN to all TiVos
TiVo HD w/ 320G WD primary drive in Antec MX-1 eSATA enclosure, PROM Mod, Telnet, FTP, tserver, TiVoWebPlus 2
Series III stock internal drive w/ Seagate Barracuda 750G SATA in Antec MX-1 eSATA enclosure
Weaknees Series III 1T internal drive w/ Hitachi 1T SATA in Antec MX-1 eSATA enclosure |
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Yaztromo
Joined: 29 Mar 2008
Posts: 1
Location: Victoria, BC, Canada
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| Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 9:51 pm Post subject: Lowest end? |
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I've just installed pyTivo (I've had my Tivo for less than a week now), and decided to throw it onto an old file server I keep kicking around. So far, it is by far the least capable system described in this thread:
* Intel Celeron 550Mhz
* Debian Etch
* 128MB RAM
* 300GB HDD
The system is headless -- I've been using it for years as a file server, DNS, and NTP server for my home network.
For the record, this setup works, but I'm finding that I pretty much need to plan to watch something at least a few hours in advance. Still, it works, and as the server already contains nearly 200GB of digital video, it's been absolutely fantastic.
Anyone here running on a less capable system than this?
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krkeegan
Site Admin
Joined: 04 Jan 2008
Posts: 412
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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| Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:46 am Post subject: |
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| Haha, wow, yeah that is pretty basic. With the work being done to push a file to the TiVo you might be able to schedule transfers in the future. |
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MrFreshy
Joined: 18 Mar 2008
Posts: 3
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mine is not dedicated solely to pyTivo, but it is my media sharing box...
P4 2.8Ghz
2GB RAM
Windows XP Pro
headless box, managed through RDP
100Mb wired connection
OS drive :: 80GB
Data1 :: 250GB
Data2 :: 750GB
Data3 :: 500GB
Data4 :: 750GB
I just added Data4, so nothing on that one yet! |
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real_armooo
pyTivo Creator
Joined: 23 Mar 2008
Posts: 42
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X2 5000+ OCed to 3ghz right now.
I can now output Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 1280x720, q=2-31, 12582 kb/s, 29.97 fps(c) faster than real time, it is taking me 27 min to encode 30 min of video. So not much faster but it is all I needed. |
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krkeegan
Site Admin
Joined: 04 Jan 2008
Posts: 412
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Congrats on the new box. Have you named it yet? (Or am I the only one who names their machines?) |
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windracer
Joined: 04 Jan 2008
Posts: 160
Location: St. Pete, FL
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geranimo1
Joined: 16 Jan 2008
Posts: 10
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I'm sure you're not the only one. Mine are currently (haven't had a change in a while) Farscape characters.
Sikozu - desktop
Chiana - family laptop
Katratsi - NAS
Zhaan - Ubuntu server (running pyTiVo)
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Totally off-topic, but isn't it spelled Katratzi? |
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windracer
Joined: 04 Jan 2008
Posts: 160
Location: St. Pete, FL
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Holy cow, you're right. I've been spelling it wrong all this time! 
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pyTiVo on Ubuntu 8.10 |
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dizziness
Joined: 22 Jan 2008
Posts: 34
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:03 pm Post subject: Overkill |
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I was running:
iMac Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
2 GB Ram
Various network drives
Now:
Mac Pro Octo-core 2.8 GHz Xeon
6 GB Ram
2 TB
Yes, its overkill but FFMPEG only uses about 120% of one CPU. Even so, I get about 3x realtime. |
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CuriousMark
Joined: 07 Jan 2008
Posts: 7
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Kurobox standard:
MPC8241 at 200MHZ
64MB RAM
250GB Hard Drive
Obviously there is no transcoding going on from this box, only music, photos and serving pre-converted MPEG-2 files.
This box isn't quite up to it. If I browse to fast, it throws -56 errors. However it only runs 17 watts. |
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leenuxg33k
Joined: 05 Jan 2008
Posts: 10
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| CuriousMark wrote: | Kurobox standard:
MPC8241 at 200MHZ
64MB RAM
250GB Hard Drive
Obviously there is no transcoding going on from this box, only music, photos and serving pre-converted MPEG-2 files.
This box isn't quite up to it. If I browse to fast, it throws -56 errors. However it only runs 17 watts. |
Which distro you running?
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2008 - TivoHD
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CuriousMark
Joined: 07 Jan 2008
Posts: 7
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| leenuxg33k wrote: | Which distro you running? |
It is LNI uboot + 2.4.33.3-firmimg.bin + freelink
I have documented that part on my user page, as soon as I get pytivo running the way I want it to, I plan on adding that and then publishing it as a new howto. I don't work on it very often or long, so progress is pretty slow. Comments and suggestions are welcome
http://buffalo.nas-central.org/index.php/User:CuriousMark
I have been having problems with getting PIL installed, it always errored out. I finally tracked that down to having installed Python 2.5 and having set some simlinks up wrong. I now know how to use the simlink command. My inexperience with Linux is my current achille's heel. |
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leenuxg33k
Joined: 05 Jan 2008
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philhu
Joined: 04 Jan 2008
Posts: 122
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I am curious on this too.
I migght get a kurobox to make my server
I see part of a howto is done. I've used Linux for 11 years, so it doesn't scare me.
Is there more of a how-to to get the basic system up to speed, get python up and get pytivo up and running? |
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