[mythtv-users] Neuros OSD 2.0 could make a good FE or BE for $250

George Galt george.galt at gmail.com
Wed Sep 17 15:21:14 UTC 2008


On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Bill Peck <bill.peck at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Travis Tabbal <travis at tabbal.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Johnny Russ <jruss at mit.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> I saw this announcement for the Neuros OSD 2.0 (Open Source Device):
>>> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9949081537.html. It only cost $250 I
>>> believe and it can record from analog to 720p and can upscale to 1080i. It
>>> has a TI DSP with open source drivers. Does anybody see any problems with
>>> getting MythTV onto one of these? At $250 this could be a great setup.
>>
>>
>> At $250, I'd be interested in using it as a frontend.  They say it can
>> decode MP4/H264 at 720p/1080i which is as good as my system can handle
>> anyway. Of course, some internet content is 1080p. It would be nice if it
>> could play it back but downscale it to 720p if needed. I'm a little
>> concerned as some hardware based decoders are picky about the files they
>> will decode properly. I'd want to see it used in real life with nutty files
>> and get decent playback. Can't ask for perfection from bad data, but not
>> crashing and playing what it can would be nice. If the drivers for the DSP
>> are really OSS, then it should be fixable by people that are better than me
>> at such things. :)
>>
>> No Gigabit. Streaming is fine at 100Mbps, but if I put an HD in there it
>> would be nice to be able to move large HD files to/from it quicker. Not a
>> big issue, but one to be aware of.
>>
>> I wonder if it can take a DVD-ROM (or burner). That has some potential. The
>> analog encoder for 720p would be nice as well. MP4 only, no H264 HD
>> encoding. I don't really have a use for this feature at the moment, but it's
>> nice to have available.
>>
>
>
> I was super excited until I saw no mention of digital audio out.  I
> may be missing something but it looks like it only does stereo out
> which is a huge shame as everything else looks amazing.
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Doesn't HDMI do audio as well (I believe 7.1)?  The problem appears to
be that there is no way to get anything better than stereo into the
system, so even if it could output 7.1 through HDMI, all you have is a
stereo signal.

George


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