[mythtv-users] Running MythTV on Tivo Series 1 hardware

Remco Treffkorn remco at rvt.com
Thu Oct 26 23:35:49 UTC 2006


On Thursday 26 October 2006 16:28, petesea at bigfoot.com wrote:
> Is it possible to load MythTV on Tivo Series 1 hardware... specifically a
> Philips PTV300/HDR312?
>
> I just replaced my old Series 1 with a Series 3 and don't want to pay for
> service on the Series 1, so it's probably going to sit and gather dust
> unless I can use it for something.  I'd like to have a more generic "Media
> Player" mainly for videos... most of them .avi files.  Although using it
> as a secondary (free) PVR would be a big plus.

It's a 50MHz PowerPC.
It only works because of the mpeg hardware codec.
I'd say: No.

Maybe reusing the case?

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