> Mark Benson wrote: > > Has anyone thought of supporting the MVP with freevo? > > Sure have. The only problem is that I don't have one... yet. They're > not in local stores here yet but I could order one online within Canada > for $133. > > > I'm not sure exactly what it would entail as its a fairly limited little > > box. It is based on a PPC with hardware mpeg1/2 chip that reads streams from > > the network. > > At first thought it would involve network booting or embedded kernel, > mount everything using NFS, SDL support for Freevo menus, a video output > driver for mplayer or xine, or just DirectFB support. Most of that work > is probably already done by another project. I know people already > running VDR on the MVP. >
I assume you mean booting the MVP with a new OS via the dongle.bin file? Would that really be necessary? I was just looking at the re-skin-ability of the MVP and while it would be easy to create a skin for the MVP that looks like (the default) freevo skin, the remote codes are still an issue - I have found out a little more about this and it just appears to be server side calls... will try to find out some more useful info on this... > > I was just curious if it was possible as I was using freevo with a dxr3 and > > from what I understand freevo transcoded everything for the dxr3 (which I > > guess means mpeg streams - including the menus). If that is the case it > > wouldn't be a hugh step to stream that stream over the network to the MVP. > > I would say this is definately doable. > Thats good news, any more info I find - i'll pass on. > > The cost of the MVP is low with many vendors carrying it @ GBP £50 and its > > small (smaller than a video cassette) and its quiet (no noise at all). And > > to top it all off the video output is great, as good as the dxr3 on TV. > > Yes, the price is right and this is the kind of frontend people need on > their televisions. I have a vision of cat5 going to every TV and NOT > coax. Impliment access and parental controls on the backend, etc, etc... > The price is so right! I have cat 5 in every room in my house (usually near a TV) and have just bought two MVPs but the hauppague interface sucks... the gbpvr interface is nicer but lacks the feature I would like. Freevo and the MVP would be the 'killer app'. What I would like to see is the MVP playing ripped DVDs and even movies straight off the DVD. A Basic web browser might be nice too - sometimes I just don't wanna go to the PC to find something out quickly... Back to Mozilla and some sort of on screen keyboard... maybe a project for the future... > Anyhow, I certainly want to pick up one of those and will be willing to > put some work into getting Freevo running on it. > I am happy to help anyway I can - I'm not a great programmer, more a systems integrator - but I have worked with many different STBs (Set top boxes) before. Mark > -Rob > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. > Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - > digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, > unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
