[mythtv] MythTV on low cost embedded hardware

Michael Drons mdrons at yahoo.com
Thu May 18 16:37:09 UTC 2006


more hardware info.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=103474&atid=634923&func=detail&aid=1108839

I dont believe the device has a encoder on it.  It can
only decode mpeg2 streams.

But it makes a great frontend, has not fans and is
small.  Support is slowing moving forward, but it
seems  only a few people are working on mythtv
support.  The device is also supports replaytv and
slim server.

-Mike

--- Thomas Pham <pham_thomas at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you Greg.
> 
> I used the IBM stb25xxx device before.
> As I recall, the device also has a built-in IDE hard
> disk interface.
> The Hauppauge MediaMVP just did not make use of it
> probably for cost reason.
> Hmmm. I wonder if the device has enough horse power
> and memory space to 
> support both frontend and backend.
> I will need to check it out.
> 
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> >From: Greg Estabrooks <greg at phaze.org>
> >Reply-To: Development of mythtv
> <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
> >To: Development of mythtv <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
> >Subject: Re: [mythtv] MythTV on low cost embedded
> hardware
> >Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 11:49:56 -0300
> >
> > > Or is it based on a PowerPC STB chip. I
> remembered that IBM used to make 
> >STB
> > > devices that were based on the PowerPC with
> built-in MPEG2 decoder 
> >hardware.
> >
> >  It's based on an ibm stb25xxx PPC chip + mpeg2
> decoder .
> >
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