[mythtv-users] Netgear EVA9150 and MythTV

[Raymond Wagner]

On 6/23/2010 18:37, Jason Ward wrote:
> On 23 June 2010 23:14, Jason Ward<jasonfward at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On 23 June 2010 23:00, Brian Wood<beww at beww.org>  wrote:
>>      
>>> On Wednesday, June 23, 2010 03:45:27 pm Jason Ward wrote:
>>>        
>>>> Have any very clever people ever tried to get MythTV working on the Netgear
>>>> EVA9150 devices?
>>>>          
>>> If you mean actually *run* MythTV on the device I'd say no chance at all.
>>>        
>> Yes, I did mean *run*, any reason why you say "no chance at all"?  I'm
>> pretty certain its base OS is Linux already, and its clearly capable
>> of video playback including HD (so I'd hope playback performace should
>> MythTV ever be able to run on the device would be great).
>>      
> I can confirm indeed the Netgear EVA9150 runs Linux, the source code
> can be downloaded here
>    

It all boils down to available power, and that device simply doesn't 
have it.  It's probably running some sort of ARM with limited memory and 
an embedded video decoder.  MythTV cannot use the video decoder, wants 
more memory than the device provides, and takes more power to run the UI 
than that has available.