[mythtv] Roku ?

[Alan Gonzalez]

Did some more looking,  seems like you can customize it heavily.  Use
a different remote, create new screens.  So it looks possible to
integrate MythTV support into it.    I wish though it had a DVD tray,
so I don't have to go to my mythbackend to play something.


On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:13:20 -0500, Alan Gonzalez
<alandgonzalez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks interesting.  Would be a great project to start :)
> 
> I've wanted a small HD box too as a myth frontend that is open and
> configurable and runs linux.  Especially if you can use a better
> remote with it.
> 
> It really depens on how they are running their homebrew frontend and
> if you can customize it easily or if you can replace it with something
> totally custom.
> 
> Something to look into I guess.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:12:40 -0500, David Shay <david at shay.net> wrote:
> > I saw some posts about a year ago on the Roku HD1000
> > (http://www.rokulabs.com/products/hd1000/index.php) .  I am mainly
> > interested in using it as a HDTV frontend.  I already have an Epia M10000
> > acting as a master backend (PVR-250) and frontend , with another machine
> > which currently has a PVR-250 and will soon have a PCHDTV-3000 card in it.
> > Unfortunately, the Epia doesn't have the horsepower to decode HDTV, as I
> > understand it.  I really wanted something with an A/V profile (and
> > relatively silent) to use, but it needs to be able to decode HDTV.  It looks
> > like out-of-the box, with some very minor hacking, you could mount an NFS
> > filesystem and play the HDTV streams recorded by the PCHDTV-3000. They also
> > have an SDK which might be able to further extends it's abilities with
> > respect to Myth integration.
> >
> > Is anybody using one of these at all?  Anybody using it in conjunction with
> > Myth?
> >
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