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Contents 1 arj 2 Esprit 3 Acmelabs 4 Uatschitchun 5 Parti 6 loswillios 7 Oberstpicki 8 Lake-end 9 zypher

[edit] arj

arj's MMS System :

Hardware :
- CPU : AMD Athlon 64 3000+
- Memory : 1024 Mb SDRAM
- Video Output : Radeon 8500
- Audio Output : Audiotrak MAYA EX5
- Control : Hauppauge remote control (from pvr250)
- TV card: Hauppauge PVR150 + Hauppauge PVR250
- Projector: Sanyo PLV-Z4

Software :
- Gentoo
- Audio Player : Alsaplayer
- Video Player : MPlayer/cxfe

[edit] Esprit

First Esprit's MMS System :

Hardware :
- CPU : AMD Duron 950
- Memory : 128 Mb SDRAM
- Video Output : Hollywood Plus Card (DXR3)
- Audio Output : N/A (using the H+ audio output)
- Control : Lirc IR module + remote

Software :
- Debian Testing (Lenny actually)
- Audio Player : Alsaplayer
- Video Player : MPlayer (dxr3)

Esprit's MMS System on Zenega :

Hardware :
T-Online S100 ( Zenega )
- CPU : Celeron M 733Mhz
- Memory : 128 Mb SDRAM
- Video Output : Zenega integrated S-Video (SDL / Xorg)
- Audio Output : Zenega integrated RCA audio output
- Control : integrated Zenega Lirc + Zenega remote

Software :
- Debian Stable (Etch actually)
- Audio Player : Alsaplayer
- Video Player : MPlayer (xv)

[edit] Acmelabs

Acmelabs' MMS System #1:

Hardware :
 - CPU : AMD Sempron 2800+
 - Memory: 512 MB DDR
 - Video Output #1: DVB-FF over PAL/SCART (VDR)
                    SkyStar II (budget)
 - Video Output #2: nVidia 5200 over VGA (MMS)
 - Audio Output : S/PDIF and DVB-Coax out
 - Control : Remote Lirc via Server
 - TV-Set: Gericom 30"

Software :
 - Kannotix w/ 2.6.17-rc5-mm1 (own minimal-Kernel-config)
 - Audio Player: Alsaplayer
 - Video Player : MPlayer

Features :
 - Suspend to RAM: up in 13secs via Remote
 - Media over NFS

'Acmelabs' MMS System #2: (Testing-System)

Hardware :
 - CPU : AMD Sempron 2800+
 - Memory: 1GB DDR
 - Video Output #1: DVB-FF over PAL/SCART (VDR)
                    SkyStar II (budget)
 - Video Output #2: nVidia 5200 over VGA (MMS)
 - Audio Output : analog out
 - Control : local lirc controller
 - TV-Set: 19" TFT Montitor and 24" Sony CRT

Software :
 - Ubuntu/Edgy w/ 2.6.18.2 (own minimal-Kernel-config)
 - Audio Player: Alsaplayer
 - Video Player : MPlayer

Features :
 - Suspend to RAM: up in 13secs via Remote
 - Media over NFS

[edit] Uatschitchun

Uatschitchun's MMS System :

Livingroom-Hardware (Hermes Barebone):
- CPU : Celeron 2.0 Ghz
- Memory : 256 MB DDR
- Video Output : SIS 65x/M650/740 (onboard)
- Audio Output : SIS (onboard)
- Control : Multiremote MD41169 (Aldi ;)
- TV card: FF-DVB-s TT 1.3
- normal TV + 2* Sony-PSOne-TFT

Software :
- Debian Sarge
- VDR 1.4.9 Tobi (recompiled) - via FF-DVB
- MMS 1.1.0 (Alsaplayer, MPlayer/cxfe) - via SIS's TV-Out

Thx to the 2 little TFTs (1 is placed next to the TV as status-display running graphtft-plugin/MMS, the other one is sitting in the kitchen) I've got several possibilities to run VDR & MMS. The TFTs are connected to TV-Out of the graphic card. I'm able to run 2 outputs at the same time: TV+TFT or TFT+TFT With this setup the following scenarios are possible:

Plain VDR: Running just VDR gives TV to TV-set and graphtft to TFT next to it. It's possible to put TV onto the TFT (fbtv), too ... so I can watch TV on kictchen's TFT while cooking ;)

VDR+MMS: I start MMS from within VDR cause VDR is started at bootup. Cause of the TFT I don't have to switch on TV to use VDR or start MMS. MMS startup does the following: Suspends Graphtft via svdrp-command (MMS does not update the full screen, so it has to be suspended), set's VDR's min-user-activity to '0' to prevent VDR from shutting down while MMS is running, start MMS on X. MMS uses it's own lirc-set so I'm able to control both VDR & MMS individualy. MMS shutdown does these things vice-versa: shutdown MMS, activate Graphtft and set min-user-activity to '180' again (this has to be <> '0' for to make VDR shutdown after wakeup for recording)

As mentioned before, I can use TV+TFT & TFT+TFT. So MMS could go to TV+TFT or to TFT+TFT. Cause of having the IR-Receiver placed central, I'm able to control MMS from living-room and from the kitchen (have a separate little remote in the kitchen to control basic MMS-functions like volume, skip, add, etc.)

Further Hardware

Server running 24/7
 - VDR for Recordings & providing second card to living-room (streamdev), Streaming to laptop (xineliboutput), MediaMVP in bedroom
 - Fileserver
 - FTP-Server
 - constant running MMS for to listen to music whenever I want without turning on a system and waiting for it to be booted (separate Amp + conected to living-room's amp => music in the main rooms)

Laptop 1.7 PentiumM
 - My "workstation"
 - Running MMS and TV (vdr-sxfe) to watch TV or listen to music inthe garden at grilltime or outdoor-parties ;) via WLAN

I've provided some pictures of the various scenarios:

VDR running on TV + graphtft to TFT	VDR's graphtft on TFT	MMS on TFT	TFT in my kitchen
MMS running on TV	VDR on TFT in the kitchen (fbtv)	VDR playing a Video (TV) and MMS delivers the Music (TFT)

[edit] Parti

Parti's MMS System :

How To
Hardware :
- Asus Pundit P1-AH2
- CPU : AMD Semperon 3400+
- Memory : 512 Mb DDR2
- Video Output : Geforce 6150 onboard (SDL / Xorg)
- Audio Output : Onboard
- Control : Medion 81035
- TV: Medion 16:9

Software :
- Ubuntu Feisty (command line install)
- Audio Player : Alsaplayer
- Video Player : Xine

[edit] loswillios

menu

movies

audio album

Hardware :
- FSC xenic something (xs?)
- CPU : Pentium IV 1.6Ghz
- Memory : 256 MB SDRAM
- Video Output : DXR3
- Audio Output : DXR3
- TV: oldschool :)

Software :
- Arch Linux
- Audio Player : Alsaplayer
- Video Player : Mplayer

[edit] Oberstpicki

Oberstpicki's MMS :

main menu

main menu

playing a movie

Hardware :
- Board: Asus P4PE
- CPU : Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.8GHz
- Memory : 1Gb DDR-RAM
- Video Output : Geforce N7600GS, DVI to HDMI
- Audio Output : spdif, Kenwood receiver
- Control : rf keyboard with touchpad
- TV: Samsung 40" LCD

Software :
- Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy
- Audio Player : Alsaplayer
- Video Player : MPlayer
- Media over NFS

[edit] Lake-end

Lake-end's MMS :

main menu

Hardware :
- Case: Silverstone LC20M
- Board: GA-P35-DS3R(rev.1)
- CPU : Intel Pentium (dual core) E2180 @ 3.0ghz
- Memory : 2Gb DDR2-RAM
- Video Output : Geforce 6800GS, DVI to HDMI
- DVB Card: 2x Technotrend Premium Hybrid C2300
- Harddrives: 2x320gb Seagate in RAID1 and 500gb Seagate for DVB recordings
- Audio Output : MB integrated analog sound, stereo 2.0
- Control : Iolo Scorpius and Logitech Harmony 555
- TV: Mirai 42" LCD
- Otherstuff in picture: Xbox, CD-carousel, amp, Sennheiser wireless headphones, Warferdale speakers

Software :
- Gentoo
- Audio Player : Xine
- Video Player : MPlayer
- Media over CIFS
- DVB with VDR and Xineliboutput

[edit] zypher

zypher's MMS System :

Hardware :
- System: Fujitsu-Siemens Scenic E600
- CPU : Intel Celeron 2,66Ghz (ondemand 666Mhz - 2666Mhz)
- Memory : 512 Mb DDR-RAM
- Harddrives: 1x40GB Fujitsu 2,5" (system) + 2x250GB Samsung Spinpoint (data, mostly asleep) 
- Video Output : Sigma Designs, Inc. REALmagic Hollywood Plus (DXR3)
- Audio Output : DXR3
- Control : Medion X10
- TV card: Terratec 1200 PCI DVB-T, Terratec cinergyT2 DVB-T
- TV : Sony Triniton

Software :
- Gentoo (~x86)
- Audio Player : Xine
- Video Player : MPlayer
- DVB : VDR 1.6 + streamdev + xineliboutput + vdr-fbfe