[mythtv-users] Popcorn Hour Unit as VIdeo Output?

[Robert Kulagowski]

jedi wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 04:32:49PM -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote:
>> An article in this month's Linux Journal is a review of the Popcorn Hour 
>> A-100 Media Tank. A paperback sized box with an embedded (linux??) 
>> control program, intended to play all sorts of video formats, and 
>> apparently capable of doing 1080p with ease, for $200.
>>
>> The corporate site is at popcornhour.com. A newer unit with better 
>> capabilities is now available for $215.
>>
>> A review is at http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/68576
>>
>> This unit can stream videos, with or without an internal hard drive.
>>
>> Does anyone have one of these? Could it be set up and left in a ready 
>> state to stream videos from mythtv...in effect as a video card?
>>
>> The output capabilities of this box, *if reasonably usable with mythtv* 
>> could sidestep a lot of video problems.
> 
>     You still have to deal with video with commercials embedded in them.
> If you're really keen on how MythTV skips through those, and how it 
> presents everything then the popcorn hour is interesting but not quite
> there yet.

If the PH is used to display video, then some out-of-band message needs 
to get from whereever you're watching to the backend saying something 
like "skip 180 seconds".  Pretend that the PH is just reading a 
continuous stream of video; don't use PnP from the PH to request a skip, 
because AFAIK there's no mechanism to do that using the PnP protocol.

Is that what you mean?