[mythtv-users] Hauppauge MediaMVP as a Frontend?

[Malcolm Smith]

It does look interesting. As a frontend only it beats most things I have
looked at.

I want a dumb front end, it has to be silent, backend can do the work (2.4G
Celery with DVB cards should be more than enough). Until I saw this I was
thinking that a Via Itx board would be the way to go, but that would be 3
times the cost.

Anybody else interested?

-malc-



> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Christian Hack
> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 7:33 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge MediaMVP as a Frontend?
>
>
> It can't play MPEG4 or RTJPEG but mine can definitely play the MPEG2 files
> produced by my DVB card. It will probably play the PVRx50 generated files
> without problems. It also can't decode AC3 audio which is
> broadcast on some
> DVB channels.
>
> The MPEG2 decoding is done in hardware so to decode MPEG4 it will probably
> need to be done in software. Something it may not be capable of.
>
> I have used Dom's code to play files across the network fairly easily.
> Seeking doesn't work.
>
> It is something I would like to work on but I just don't have the time.
>
> Since all the screens are generated on the server (i.e. what mythbackend
> would run on), it should be possible.
>
> CH
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Philippe Daoust" <pdaoust at sympatico.ca>
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 4:55 PM
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge MediaMVP as a Frontend?
>
>
> > Has anybody thought of using a Hauppauge MediaMVP
> > (http://www.hauppauge.com/html/mediamvp_datasheet.htm) as a frontend for
> > Myth?
> >
> > At $99 (or less) and dead silent it would make the perfect frontend.
> There
> > is a guy that actually made it work as a frontend for VDR
> > (http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/) so I'm guessing that it should be
> possible to
> > do something with Myth...
> >
> > The info on the MediaMVP VDR frontend can be found here:
> > http://www.rst38.org.uk/mediamvp
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
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