[mythtv-users] Interesting potential lightweight frontend
Rudy Zijlstra
mythtv at edsons.demon.nl
Tue Nov 15 17:41:39 EST 2005
Devan Lippman wrote:
>
>
> On 11/15/05, *Josh Burks* <dotnofoolin at gmail.com
> <mailto:dotnofoolin at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On 11/15/05, Tom Lichti <tom at redpepperracing.com
> <mailto: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
> <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
> <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
>
>
> 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>
It does not support MPEG4 H.264 which will be used for broadcasting in
Europe, and most likely also China.
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