[mythtv-users] Hauppauge MediaMVP as a Frontend?

[Isaac Force]

I had never heard of these before, but they look _really_ cool. I recently
got a couple PVR-250's off eBay and I was going to start putting together a
HTPC for Myth, but I'd much rather have a device like this so I don't have
to muck with video card tweaking, trying to make it as silent as possible,
etc.

Given that it's already proven with Linux and boots off the network out of
the box, I would agree that it would be an ideal frontend. (Especially with
its price point -- a couple bucks more than I spent for _one_ of my PVR
cards)

Think I might pick one up and join the effort.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jarrod Gray" <grayjk at cs.rose-hulman.edu>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge MediaMVP as a Frontend?


>
> I went out and bought one yesterday. This is ideal for a frontend IMHO. It
> has the same decoder as the 250/350 hence the same high quality video out.
> It runs linux and has a filesystem that can easily be modified. It has a
> powerpc 405 risc processor which goes upto 266mhz. The filesystem and
> kernel image are loaded via tftp from a server. While snooping around the
> fs a bit, I've found kernel modules for the decoder, a frame buffer,
> and other audio modules.
>
> The ivtv kernel module could probably be made to work on the device or it
> should be possible to reverse engineer the interfaces to the modules that
> are already there (see http://www.cs.utk.edu/~gettler/mediamvp/).
>
> I'm going to set up a powerpc 405 build environment
> (http://kegel.com/crosstool/crosstool-0.25.tar.gz patched with
>
ftp://ftp.shspvr.com/download/mediamvp_download/crosstool-0.25-ppc405-gcc2.patch.gz).
> Somewhere on shspvr.com are the source files that hauppauge used to build
> the fs image but shspvr.com appears to be down right now. I want to get
> telnet or ssh on it and then go from there.
>
> Jarrod
>
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Philippe Daoust wrote:
>
> > Has anybody thought of using a Hauppauge MediaMVP
> > (http://www.hauppauge.com/html/mediamvp_datasheet.htm) as a frontend for
> > Myth?
> >
> > At $99 (or less) and dead silent it would make the perfect frontend.
There
> > is a guy that actually made it work as a frontend for VDR
> > (http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/) so I'm guessing that it should be possible
to
> > do something with Myth...
> >
> > The info on the MediaMVP VDR frontend can be found here:
> > http://www.rst38.org.uk/mediamvp
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
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