[mythtv] Re: fanless Epia, Mediamvp or network dvd player for frontend? Remove Highlighting [In reply to]

[stuart]

Hi...

I'm joining this thread (actually the mailing list) late so I don't know 
who to CC or if gossamer will thread this correctly, sorry...


> but there's one thing I forgot to mention. I'm planning on cracking
> open whatever box(es) I have and building a hifi-sized custom case.
> The mainboard on the DSM and MVP boxes is way smaller than 7in square
> :-) 

Don't know much about the other options but if I were doing it I would 
use mvpmc/mediamvp as it is small and you can probably add a cap coupled 
spdif right to the amp - if you were to embed the thing inside (see: 
http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/mvpmc_hardware_howto.html#s3 ).  I would do 
it but I also want a local 20x2 VFD (display) and can't easily fit that 
on the front of anything (see: 
http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/mvpmc_hardware_howto.html#s7 ).

I would compromise if I could figure out how to use the VFD on my Sony 
amp - anyone know how to hack into the Sony's amp micro?