[mythtv-users] SageTV HD200 as an HD MythTV frontend?

Paul pturpin+mythtv at gmail.com
Fri Jan 30 21:18:40 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin at cs.duke.edu> wrote:
> Patrick Davila [pdavila at thelinuxlink.net] wrote:
>> The box is apparently running Linux under the hood. It's using a 300mhz
>> Sigma SMP 8635 LF chipset.
>>
>> For $200 I'd buy a pair of them in a heartbeat if we could get MythTV
>> running on them. If SageTV locks this thing up in a similar fashion as the
>> Roku Netflix player maybe we do an end run and get it unlocked from the
>> hardware manufacturer?
>
> I bought its predecessor, the HD100, a year ago.  An HD100 is not
> quite as locked up as a Roku (eg, an open source request will actually
> get some results).  I was really hoping somebody would port MythTV,
> but that never happened.  I'm assuming the HD200 is similar, from a
> "locked down" perspective.  At least the HD200 seems to be in ample
> supply, so maybe more people will get them and increase the
> likelyhood that somebody will do a port.
>
> The biggest advantage these extenders have over most devices is that
> they can do commercial skipping.  The drawback is that this only works
> when you're running them in extender mode, via SageTV.  So you'd need
> to spend an extra $70 or so to get the SageTV Linux license, and
> invest some effort into trying to make SageTV and MythTV coexist
> (regularly linking MythTVs' cryptic filenames to something sane, and
> then refreshing SageTV to notice new links, then running comskip on
> the new recordings).
>
> FWIW, I got sick of trying to make MythTV and SageTV peacfully
> coexist, and so I switched over to 100% SageTV.  I still lurk here
> because I'd still rather run MythTV, and I'm hoping somebody
> eventually ports MythTV.  If not, I'll probably build a VDPAU based
> box when it attains stable, supported status.  I really, really,
> really miss timestretch...
>
> Drew
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I think it is very unlikely that myth will be ported to either device.
For the original device there is alot of open source code available
for it, but there is not open source code available for use of the
hardware decoding chip. Someone would pretty much have to reverse
engineer it. I am guessing the story with the second device is
similar. Without hardware decoding there is no chance they could play
any HD material.  Now with VDPAU there really is no incentive for
anyone to attempt such a feat.


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