[mythtv-users] Interesting potential lightweight frontend

[Chris Ribe]

It cetainly is somewhat of a baffling product.

I'd actually love to use one on my desk with a dual monitor setup. If it
supports simultaneous disk use and video playback, you could probably use
its harddrive as a /video partition, and use its playback hardware for
watching video on one monitor while webbrowsing/working on your backend with
the other monitor.

I imagine that scenario won't move many units, though.

This is the cheapest way to turn an old computer monitor into an HDTV
monitor I have seen yet, though. Hell, I might buy one on that point alone.

Old PC(Free) + Firewire Card + TVisto + 120GB HD + DCT-6200 = HDTV
PVR+Monitor for under $300

On 11/15/05, Rudy Zijlstra <mythtv at edsons.demon.nl> wrote:
>
> Devan Lippman wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 11/15/05, *Josh Burks* <dotnofoolin at gmail.com
> > <mailto:dotnofoolin at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > On 11/15/05, Tom Lichti <tom at redpepperracing.com
> > <mailto:tom at redpepperracing.com>> wrote:
> > > Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > >
> > > >Anybody know anything about this? It says it runs uClinux...
> > > >
> > > >
> > http://www.pcmicrostore.com/partdetail.aspx?q=p:10503269&SSAID=137667
> > <http://www.pcmicrostore.com/partdetail.aspx?q=p:10503269&SSAID=137667>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > No network interface is a big downside. If someone hacked the
> > firmware
> > > to allow USB based NIC's, it could work. Plus it doesn't come
> > with a
> > > hard drive, so you'd need to buy that. I'm having a hard time
> > figuring
> > > out the actual market for this...
> > >
> >
> > Here's the offical site: http://www.galaxymetalgear.com/Tvisto.htm
> > <http://www.galaxymetalgear.com/Tvisto.htm>
> >
> > Looks like it's designed to be a standalone player, where you have to
> > connect it to your computer and download content onto it. Then you can
> > carry it to your tv to play back your content. Basically it's a video
> > ipod, without the screen and a (possibily) larger hard drive.
> >
> > Maybe people would like to load it up with their favorite media and
> > take it grandma's house...?
> >
> > Josh
> >
> >
> > Actually with a USB NIC this would make a pretty sweet diskless
> > frontend. Not as pretty as the Roku, but it DOES support MPEG4 which
> > to me is big. Not sure what it takes to get myth frontend to compile
> > against uClib or what you could run for a framebuffer (DirectFB or X).
> >
> > --
> > Thanks,
> > Devan Lippman <devan at lippman dot net>
>
> It does not support MPEG4 H.264 which will be used for broadcasting in
> Europe, and most likely also China.
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