[mythtv] SageTV HD Extender STX-HD100 (UPDATE!, With source code)

[Marc Randolph]

> > Would anyone with the skill to reverse engineer this box be willing to step
>  > up and own this project? I am sure it would take much to get the community
>  > to purchase a box for you!
>
> The ffmpeg modifications also look very interesting. There seem to be
> changes made to support the Sigma Designs EM8623L chip that provides
> hardware video processing. Also based on the name of the kernel src
> tar it seems it would have have the necessary modules to support the chip.
>
> Also here are more details on the hardware specs:
> http://www.shspvr.com/reviews/sagetv_hd_extender/sagetv_hd_extender.html
>
> And the decoder chip being used:
> http://www.sigmadesigns.com/public/Products/EM8620L/EM8620L_series.html

For anyone interested in doing the work, there are parts of other
Sigma Designs EM86xx source in the wild as well:

 * http://mvixcommunity.com//showtopic.php?tid/363/fbb_session_id/47f9e0f5a7d0b343adbfbb65039f5206/
 * http://www.geocities.com/em8620l/
 * http://moviebeam.wikispaces.com/page/view/home/15317189
 * which has pointers to several other places, especially
http://www.services.assmann.com/download/adm/GPL/

The first one appears to have a replacement development environment
since Sigma Designs SDK isn't widely available.  I believe that a
backup copy of that development environment is here:
http://amd.co.at/anti/hd-player/programming/ (browse around other
directories - there are other interesting sources there as well).

Lastly, while I'm doing a brain dump on this topic, there is also a
large collection of random STB related stuff at
ftp://66.15.209.17/pub/ - but most of it appears to be for VIA-based
boards.

   Marc