Not really related but there is currently a project working to put XBMC on the RasberryPi.<div><br></div><div>If you dont know what a RasberryPi is look here
<a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/571">http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/571</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Now AFAIK you cant schedule recordings, delete stuff etc from an XBMC FE (I know its now an FE really but you know what i mean) but for $35 its worth buying one just for the fun of seeing how well it performs.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think the only thing currently is there may be some uncertainty around what codecs it can decode in hw (it can defo do h264) then I'm buying one for the bedroom!</div><div><br></div><div>Chris<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Dave Badia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dbadia@gmail.com">dbadia@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
So this may not be the best time to bring this up given some of the<br>
other threads... but RVU (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RVU_protocol" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RVU_protocol</a>)<br>
is starting to gain traction and there are working implementations of<br>
the spec (<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/11/samsung-smarttv-comcast-timewarner-fios-directv/" target="_blank">http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/11/samsung-smarttv-comcast-timewarner-fios-directv/</a>)<br>
and the "remote UI" model.<br>
<br>
It seems this would be a potential (I stress the word potential) way<br>
to have the TV itself be a myth frontend. I'm not a myth developer,<br>
but here's how I see it:<br>
<br>
Thoughts:<br>
a) RVU clients are starting to be included in TVs. Samsung announced<br>
the client will be in all Smart TVs in 2012. Hopefully the RVU client<br>
becomes a "checkbox" feature in the future and other manufacturers<br>
follow suit<br>
b) RVU is a superset of DLNA/UPNP; myth already has some level of<br>
support for UPNP (to what extent I don't know as I've never really<br>
used it).<br>
c) myth would (obviously) require changes to become an RVU server - see bad news<br>
<br>
Bad news/outstanding questions:<br>
1) Can mythtv, as an open source project, implement the RVU protocol?<br>
any licensing issues here? (I don't see any but I am not an expert)<br>
2) while RVU is build on top of open standards, the RVU spec is not<br>
open and costs $500 US to download. While that sounds like a lot, the<br>
"low cost" FE I build last year cost me $300 US. Perhaps users could<br>
contribute funds to pay for the spec (50 users @$10 each?). While<br>
there's a very real chance that the devs get the spec and immediately<br>
see 100 reasons that myth can't implement it - personally it's a<br>
gamble I'm willing to take given the possibility of not having to<br>
build/maintain yet another FE at some point in the future. Imagine<br>
being able to buy a TV, mount on the wall and have instant access to<br>
MythTV!<br>
3) To the myth devs - is this something anyone would actually be<br>
interesting in developing? Does this fit into the future "direction"<br>
of mythtv? It would be best to set the expectations up front<br>
especially for those who would consider contributing money to purchase<br>
the spec. Not asking for a commitment of implementation but simply<br>
trying to understand if there is motivation on the development side to<br>
work towards RVU server support<br>
<br>
Dave<br>
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