[mythtv-users] Interesting potential lightweight frontend

Devan Lippman devan.lippman at gmail.com
Tue Nov 15 15:55:00 EST 2005


On 11/15/05, Josh Burks <dotnofoolin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/15/05, Tom Lichti <tom at redpepperracing.com> wrote:
> > Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> >
> > >Anybody know anything about this? It says it runs uClinux...
> > >
> > >http://www.pcmicrostore.com/partdetail.aspx?q=p:10503269&SSAID=137667
> > >
> > >
> > No network interface is a big downside. If someone hacked the firmware
> > to allow USB based NIC's, it could work. Plus it doesn't come with a
> > hard drive, so you'd need to buy that. I'm having a hard time figuring
> > out the actual market for this...
> >
>
> Here's the offical site: http://www.galaxymetalgear.com/Tvisto.htm
>
> Looks like it's designed to be a standalone player, where you have to
> connect it to your computer and download content onto it. Then you can
> carry it to your tv to play back your content. Basically it's a video
> ipod, without the screen and a (possibily) larger hard drive.
>
> Maybe people would like to load it up with their favorite media and
> take it grandma's house...?
>
> Josh
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Actually with a USB NIC this would make a pretty sweet diskless frontend.
Not as pretty as the Roku, but it DOES support MPEG4 which to me is big. Not
sure what it takes to get myth frontend to compile against uClib or what you
could run for a framebuffer (DirectFB or X).

--
Thanks,
Devan Lippman <devan at lippman dot net>
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