Freevo PVR box
Software
Freevo is not a full distribution, just a suite of software to add on top of linux.
So i had to choose a base linux distro to install on.
I want with Debian because it's fast, simple and lightweight.
I actually used the XFCE CD ISO version of debian, so XFCW would be preinstalled. XFCE is not required but it's nice to have an X-windows environment and windows manager on hand when you want to run other tools for things not covered by Freevo (say a browser or a dvd encoding tool etc ...)
i got the “testing” version (etch) because it’s pretty much needed to get the freevo stuffs to work.
http:cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/ (debian-testing-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso)
Burned it on a CD using cdrecord (or whatever CD burning tool you have).
Then boot the CD and install debian.
Configure the network during instalation etc ...
After installing and booting debian, you will probably want to upgrade/update it.
show /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update apt-get upgrade
add the freevo repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list
.... deb http://debian.geole.info/ etch main contrib non-free deb http://debian-multimedia.org etch main
Then install freevo
apt-get update apt-get install freevo
Working on the box itself is usually not practical, because it’s next to the TV, and probably not plugged to a computer monitor, doesn’t have a chair in front etc..., so best is to install tools so we can work on the box remotely.
I use SSH and VNC
apt-get install openssh-server apt-get install vncserver
Then you can start the vncserver and log to it from another machine
Starting VNC:
# note, without the depth parameter it won't work right. vncserver -depth 16 -resolution 800x600
run on :0 ?
From the remote machine, you can log using:
start vncserver at boot ?
vncviewer 192.168.0.105:1
Configuring freevo
Explain config of the tv grabber, retrieving listings, zap2it labs etc ...
http:home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/index.html
FIXME: freevo plugins
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