Michael Drons wrote: > The chipset (Realtek) which controls the video drivers is not open > source. The only thing open source about it is Linux.
That's too bad, as I see there is a flood of Realtek-based media players hitting the market lately: http://www.iboum.com/net-media-players.php and eventually video formats will move on, and owners of these boxes will become frustrated with their inability to play the new formats, and will dump the boxes on eBay and craigslist. If something more useful could be ported to run on them, they might still have some value... I see there is at least one company now marketing an ION-based media player: http://www.iboum.com/pr/myka-ion.php http://netbooked.net/blog/myka-announces-fanless-ion-nettop/ http://www.myka.tv/myka-ion.html but at $379, it's hard to justify compared to an Acer Aspire Revo, though the Myka has a dual-core Atom, already loaded with Ubuntu, Boxee, XBMC, and Hulu (desktop app.), and bundles a remote. Other ION news here: http://www.ionbased.com/ -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
