On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 2:12 AM, John Weekley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mark Martin wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:42 PM, homerun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi
>>
>>     Any plans to create support for DVB receivers ?
>>
>>
>> Not at the moment.  You're probably talking about Power or MIPS based
>> systems, with limited memory and flash based file systems.  While it
>> may be possible in some time to see OpenSolaris running on those
>> cpu's, the chance that it will run on those particular hardware
>> platforms is low, in my opinion.  You're welcome to contribute to
>> either porting project (PowerPC or MIPS) in the meantime.
>>
>> Mark
> Interesting assumption...  TiVo uses MIPS, but there are some very
> popular, open source alternatives.
>
> I just put one together with Fedora Core 9 (x86), 4 GB RAM (overkill),
> Dual core Athlon,  3/4 TB disk and MythTV.
>
> See www.mythtv.org and ivtvdriver.org as examples of what can be
> accomplished on x86 hardware with Linux or FreeBSD.
>
>
> John


For [EMAIL PROTECTED] all I'm aware of is this: http://bt848x.sourceforge.net/
But no DVB-T support at all.


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