[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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