[mythtv-users] Yet More Internet TV Choices

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Mon Oct 25 23:26:17 UTC 2010


On Monday, October 25, 2010 05:17:06 pm Ajay Sharma wrote:

> I feel silly, I just googled, "roku mythtv" and the first hit was
> Myth's own wiki:
> 
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ROKU_HD_Frontend
> 
> I feel better knowing that that page just showed up a couple of months
> ago.  I know I searched for it a few months ago and found nothing.
> I'm super excited and will be busy this evening setting this up!!

I'd missed that as well, but it doesn't sound like he has a full frontend running, though it's certainly a good start. I 
think he accurately described it as a "frontend player", thus making it more or less like any UPnP player (though not 
using UPnP).

I'd guess the problem is going to be the video hardware, the Roku is probably using a LSIC to handle decoding and playback 
(Sigma Designs or similar), which can't be used by Myth to output a UI et al.

I ordered the Roku box for a family member, who just wants to watch Netflix, but since it will pass through my hands I'll 
try and see what I can learn about it.



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