[mythtv-users] use an msnTV as a frontend?

[matt lutz]

Not sure if it has an IDE connection, but it definately has USB, so you
could conceivably hook up an external drive.



On 2/13/06, Dave Jones <david.l.jones at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ha, you beat me to the punch... I was about to send this myself :)
>
> It looks (to my untrained eye) that it should be capable of handling
> low-power video codecs (possibly MPEG2, but maybe not MPEG4). Its specs are
> pretty similar to an XBOX (not quite the same), so it might be able to boot
> something like Xebian and run a frontend.
>
> Anyhow, the hardware is all there. It is definitely enough to handle
> RTJPEG. If I didn't have my hands full right now, I would start hacking on
> this today!
>
> On a separate note, wouldn't this be a neat thing to re-appropriate as a
> storage server, a'la Linksys NSLU2?
>
> -David
>
>
>  On 2/13/06, matt lutz <myth.matt.lutz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I just saw this on engadget:
> >
> > http://mirror.toc2rta.com/index.php/Main_Page
> >
> >
> > At $0.99 it's a pretty cheap.  Specs look similar to an XBOX, so you
> > would think it would be able to run a full frontend.  It has more memory
> > than the XBOX too.  Any thoughts?
> >
> > Matt
> >
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