[mythtv-users] Myth on WD HDTV Media Player for $99

[jedi]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 08:35:12AM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Sunday 11 October 2009 07:33:02 Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> > 2009/10/12 Brian Wood <beww at beww.org>:
> > > By a "full" OS I was comparing standard Linux distributions to embedded
> > > systems thast require a lot less in terms of hardware, can run with very
> > > little RAM and little power. The Sigma chips are used with a lot of
> > > embedded systems, I'm not aware of any way to utilize VDPAU with an
> > > embedded system, though I'd love to hear of one.
> >
> > Are sigma available for Linux and MythTV, how is that relevant to the
> > context of this discussion?
> 
> There are Sigma-based units that run Linux, a lot of STBs run Linux, and 
> MythTV can be run on PPC systems.
> 
> So it may not be relevant to this particular point in time, but in the future 
> a MythTV system should be possible using a Sigma type chip with full hardware 
> decoding, requiring a lot less in terms of hardware than present-day 
> Linux/Myth systems. The proverbial $99 frontend seems to be technically 
> possible in the near future.

    Considering the fact that complete VDPAU systems start at $200 now, this
doesn't seem to be terribly interesting anymore. You don't need to try and 
hack some box and hope that someday all of the proprietary bits and pieces
will be supportable by a custom application frontend. You can just build a 
"real PC" solution for $200.

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