[mythtv-users] Roku as myth frontend?

Johnny jarpublic at gmail.com
Mon Sep 7 19:44:29 UTC 2009


> A year or so ago there were some articles about how Roku's open source
> code release,
> would enable us to build a $99 HD myth frontend.  For example:
>
>    http://mythtvnews.com/2008/07/04/roku-netflix-player-potential-99-mythfrontend/
>
> Has anybody actually tried doing this?

Roku didn't open source all of the code. They only open sourced some
stuff as required by the GPL or whatever license they were dealing
with. Much of the important stuff like the video hardware is still
closed and proprietary. I don't think this has or is going anywhere.


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