[mythtv-users] New thin MythTV frontend?: QNAP NMP1000 Media Player

Michelle Dupuis mdupuis at ocg.ca
Fri Oct 1 13:38:30 UTC 2010


Wow nice box!  If the graphics are fast enough, and we can bump the memory, it's a winner in my eyes!!!


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From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Brian Wood [beww at beww.org]
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 9:33 AM
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] New thin MythTV frontend?: QNAP NMP1000 Media       Player

On Friday, October 01, 2010 07:12:46 am Patrick Davila wrote:
> QNAP is releasing a Sigma based media player:
> http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Qnap-NMP1000P/
> http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_feature.asp?p_id=117
>
> What makes this different than the other Sigma based media player is that
> it's from QNAP who pride themselves on being a Linux based company.
>
> I own a QNAP TS419P NAS that can run vanilla Debian:
> http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/qnap/ts-41x/
>
>
> Granted my NAS is ARM based while this media player is MIPS. Debian does
> actively support a MIPS port.
>
> If under $200 this could make a sweet MythTV frontend especially if we can
> get Debian or another Linux variant running on it.
>
> Any thoughts?

LOTS of potential, but many devices have that. It looks a lot like a Myka to me, for which an SDK is available.

The RAM is pretty limited, I'd like to know if it's expandable or not (soldered in). It might be possible to "fatten" it a
la the NSLU2 method, but that is a difficult mechanical task.

It's definitely something to keep an eye on.

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