[mythtv-users] MythTV DirectFB PopCornHour

[Brian Wood]

On Friday 30 October 2009 07:43:31 Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:52 PM, belcampo <belcampo at zonnet.nl> wrote:
> > Several other people asked if MythTV could be run from a PopCornHour-like
> > device.
> > The LinuxTerminalServerProject people do have a lot of knowledge how to
> > run remote-applications and using local-devices.
> > If these 3 could be put together we could probably have a PCH as
> > MythTV-frontend, or am I only dreaming ?
>
> It's supposed to be possible to play MythTV content from the PCH using
> a modified mvpmc distribution.
>
> See this:
>
> http://www.mvpmc.org/~gettler/plugin.html


Interesting. I used mvpmc on an old MediaMVP, worked well but of course it was 
limited to SD.

There are other "Networked Media Tanks" besides PCH, like the Myka. I have one 
of those and since it runs a more or less standard Linux distro from a hard 
drive (not from flash) it would seem to be a better candidate for hacking 
into a frontend.

I can play Myth content by using the NFS client in Myka, it's set up to auto 
discover any nfs or samba shares on your network.

Of course a full frontend would be nicer, a complete HD Myth frontend with 
hardware video decoding for $200 would be very nice indeed.

I guess I'll get the Myka SDK and see what I can do, if I get some spare time.

>
> Further development on this seems to have stalled about a year ago.


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Brian Wood
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