[mythtv] Roku ?

[Bincrawler]

It has a USB connection so you should be able to connect an external DVD
drive to it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Gonzalez" <alandgonzalez at gmail.com>
To: "David Shay" <david at shay.net>; "Development of mythtv"
<mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv] Roku ?


> Did some more looking,  seems like you can customize it heavily.  Use
> a different remote, create new screens.  So it looks possible to
> integrate MythTV support into it.    I wish though it had a DVD tray,
> so I don't have to go to my mythbackend to play something.
>
>
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:13:20 -0500, Alan Gonzalez
> <alandgonzalez at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Looks interesting.  Would be a great project to start :)
> >
> > I've wanted a small HD box too as a myth frontend that is open and
> > configurable and runs linux.  Especially if you can use a better
> > remote with it.
> >
> > It really depens on how they are running their homebrew frontend and
> > if you can customize it easily or if you can replace it with something
> > totally custom.
> >
> > Something to look into I guess.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:12:40 -0500, David Shay <david at shay.net> wrote:
> > > I saw some posts about a year ago on the Roku HD1000
> > > (http://www.rokulabs.com/products/hd1000/index.php) .  I am mainly
> > > interested in using it as a HDTV frontend.  I already have an Epia
M10000
> > > acting as a master backend (PVR-250) and frontend , with another
machine
> > > which currently has a PVR-250 and will soon have a PCHDTV-3000 card in
it.
> > > Unfortunately, the Epia doesn't have the horsepower to decode HDTV, as
I
> > > understand it.  I really wanted something with an A/V profile (and
> > > relatively silent) to use, but it needs to be able to decode HDTV.  It
looks
> > > like out-of-the box, with some very minor hacking, you could mount an
NFS
> > > filesystem and play the HDTV streams recorded by the PCHDTV-3000. They
also
> > > have an SDK which might be able to further extends it's abilities with
> > > respect to Myth integration.
> > >
> > > Is anybody using one of these at all?  Anybody using it in conjunction
with
> > > Myth?
> > >
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> >
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