[mythtv-users] Myth on WD HDTV Media Player for $99

Michelle Dupuis support at ocg.ca
Sat Oct 10 14:47:34 UTC 2009


Wow.  I hadn't heard of Myka before but looks nice.  Still uses a fan
unfortunately but I can live with that.

Now we just have to wait for someone to hack it...and get myth FE + OS into
16MB 

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Brian Wood
Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 10:12 AM
To: Myth TV Users List
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Myth on WD HDTV Media Player for $99

On Saturday 10 October 2009 07:44:46 Michelle Dupuis wrote:
> I saw a Western Digital HDTV Media Player advertised for $99.  Has 
> anyone attempted to get Myth up and running on this?  My wiki search 
> turned up empty

If it's the one I saw it doesn't have a network port. There are similar
units that fall into the "Networked Media Tank" category, Popcorn Hour being
one, Myka being another, that do have networking capability. There's also
the $99 Netflix box made by Roku, that might be hackable.

I'm not aware of anyone getting a Myth F/E running on any of this sort of
hardware. I'd like to get a F/E working on my Myka unit, it seems to have
the best chance since it runs from the hard drive, so I won't have to fool
with flashing a new image etc. Most of these units use a Sigma chip for
decoding, and I think hardware decoding is the way to go, the Broadcom
Crystal HD looks promising. VDPAU is a halfway measure towards true hardware
decoding, but more is possible without the complicated driver and RAM
requirements.

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Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
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