[mythtv-users] Interesting potential lightweight frontend

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Tuesday 15 November 2005 15:55, Devan Lippman wrote:
> On 11/15/05, Josh Burks <dotnofoolin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 11/15/05, Tom Lichti <tom at redpepperracing.com> wrote:
> > > Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > >
> > > >Anybody know anything about this? It says it runs uClinux...
> > > >
> > > 
>http://www.pcmicrostore.com/partdetail.aspx?q=p:10503269&SSAID=137667
> > > >
> > > >
> > > No network interface is a big downside. If someone hacked the 
> > > firmware 
> > > to allow USB based NIC's, it could work. Plus it doesn't come with 
> > > a 
> > > hard drive, so you'd need to buy that. I'm having a hard time 
> > > figuring 
> > > out the actual market for this...
> > >
> >
> Actually with a USB NIC this would make a pretty sweet diskless 
> frontend. 
> Not as pretty as the Roku, but it DOES support MPEG4 which to me is 
> big. Not 
> sure what it takes to get myth frontend to compile against uClib or 
> what you 
> could run for a framebuffer (DirectFB or X).

Anybody find any info on the CPU and/or video hardware?

-JAC