[mythtv-users] using replay's hardware

[Preston Crow]

On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 13:51, David Bishop wrote:
> Well, I actually was more interested in having something that plays 
> mp3s/oggs/etc., divx's of t.v. shows I have archived, and various other 
> things that only Myth offers, via various modules.  I don't have cable or 
> satellite, and have only a small number of shows that I watch on a weekly 
> basis (Scrubs, Tru Calling, and um, that's it I think).  So it's quite 
> possible that the replay hardware wouldn't be able to keep up, even if I 
> could get linux on it (what type/speed cpu, for instance? I know tivo has 
> some 50Mhz thing that can't decode divx).  But like I said, the formfactor 
> and bundled remote makes the replay a tempting-looking machine.

I'm quite certain that the ReplayTV cpu is much slower than the TiVo's,
so while in theory it could play MP3s without any problems (there are
even rumors that you can find strings from mpg123 in the Replay
binaries), it will never play any video other than MPEG-2.

--PC