Apart from the system hangs and freezes, what are your further experiences with running mythbuntu on your fit PC box?:
- any experience with the performance when watching and recording live analogue TV?
I don't actually use it for live TV. I am running Mythbuntu 9.10 and using it for watching video files (standard and hi-def) and using MythTV to launch Boxee for streaming web content.
- what fit PC box are your using? (fit PC/fit PC2 - 1/1.6GHz processor)
I am using Fit PC2 with the 1.6GHZ CPU
- which TV tuner do you use?
Sorry, no TV Tuner so can't comment on that
System Freezes: So in terms of the system freezes and hangs, I did a fresh install of mythbuntu and tried various fixes to stop the hangs. I took a punt that it was something to do with gnome-screensaver so disabled that and installed xscreensaver instead using advice in this thread
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=195557. I also followed the advice in this thread to disable hinbernate and suspend:
http://ohioloco.ubuntuforums.org/showth ... ?t=1305081. I can't tell you for sure whether this is what fixed it but I have had the machine running for several days now with no new system hangs or freezes.
Current set up:
I have a dual boot box at the moment with mythbuntu 9.10 and Windows 7 Ultimate.
I really dislike using windows if I can help it. I find windows plays the hi-def videos very well but the standard def files are not very well defined, they are quite pixelly as if looking at a fine mosaic. I haven't had time to work out what the problem is there. I have tried different codecs but get the same problem.
Also, Boxee does not run at the moment on this set up as the Alpha uses OpenGL. However, the BETA which is due Jan 7th uses DirectX so should in theory work. This will then be a real test as to whether to go with Windows 7 or Mythbuntu.
Mythbuntu: For the Mythbuntu side of things I have made some changes to MythTv so that there is a menu option to launch Boxee and also a menu entry to launch Conkeror. This is a simple keyboard driven browser. This means that I can launch the browser from within MythTv to a home page which is essentially a list of links to my favourite torrent sites. By pressing one key it then shows up all the links on the page which you can then launch by pressing the appropriate number on the keypad. What this all means is that I can control it via a LIRC remote and select torrents etc which save to my home directory.
I then set up Transmission (the bit torrent client) to automatically pick up any torrent files in the home directory and start downloading.
Remote Control: I have gone with using LIRC in conjunction with Irxevent rather than native LIRC with Myth. The reason for this is that I couldn't get LIRC to work with Boxee. You can set up Irxevent so that it replicates keyboard presses and this gives me enough flexibility to control Myth, Boxee, Mplayer, Conkeror etc all with the same remote and ditch the keyboard all together.
I find the video playback in Hi Def and Standard Def to be very good in Mythbuntu once you have set up Mplayer as the external player. The main issue now is on some video files you end up with a thin green horizontal line at the bottom of the video window. I suspect this is to do with the experimental state of the video driver and will probably improve over time.
So, sorry for the long post but I hope it helps some of you.