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

[Bill Peck]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:21 AM, George Galt <george.galt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

I was thinking of it as a frontend to MythTv.  If it does give multi
channel via HDMI then I would buy it.