[mythtv] Another promising output option

[Ian Caulfield]

This looks like a very neat device... browsing around I see that some work 
has been done on replacing the OS image with a custom one. It might be 
possible to actually run mythfrontend on this machine - the main problem I 
can imagine would be the tight memory requirements.

I might try and get hold of one of these.

I

--On 23 January 2004 10.47 -0500 Dennis Cartier <pvr at trigger.net> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I saw mention of this neat new device, MediaMVP, from Hauppauge in a
> thread on the users list, and I was wondering if anyone has any plans to
> add support into Myth for it?
>
> http://www.hauppauge.com/html/mediamvp_datasheet.htm
>
> After researching it for a few days, I think it may be a very promising
> option to allow for adding extra remote displays. Not quite a frontend,
> more like a splitend.
>
> My idea is to write a server for it that would be a variation on the
> current frontend and would act as the server for the MediaMVP. It would
> have to produce the Myth display and OSD, and act as a proxy between the
> backend and the MediaMVP to stream the MPEG/MP3 data. For me, I would
> think that running the splitend on one of my backend's that contains my
> PVR-250's would be the best bet. It should be able to support most of the
> Myth modules that are currently available (to varying degrees).
>
> The particulars of the MediaMVP are:
>
> - Linux based
> - uses the IBM PPC405 Set Top Box system on a chip
> - has a hardware based MPEG decoder
> - includes an infrared remote
> - 100 mbit ethernet support
> - very inexpensive $80 - $100 each!
> - uses a modified VNC protocol as for the Framebuffer and keystrokes
> - is able to accept an MPEG stream over the network and decode it locally
> - much of the protocol has already been reverse engineered. See:
> http://www.shspvr.com/forum/
> - equivalent of a remote PVR-350, but only for decoding and TV-Out
> - a Linux server for VDR already exists. Could highlight how things work.
>
> I am willing to help with this undertaking as I think it will benefit the
> Myth community, but I am not very experienced in C++, and would need a
> more experienced developer to take the lead. Any interest?
>
> Dennis Cartier
>