Re: Guix Home Entertainment SoC Media Server?
Hi Blake, > Hiya Guix! > > I just got a TV and want to put together a little SoC home media server for > > it (perhaps with beaglebone black, as that appears to be the recommended > > SoC for Guix). Has anyone had any experience with this? Thoughts? > > I figure it could be a fun use of `Guix Deploy`, but I've never put > > together a SoC media server before, so I'm not sure what packages to > > peek at, or what "out of the box" (re: raspbian etc) options are > > available. > > Seems like this could be some cool shoes for Guix to fill! > > ez, > > blake I'd probably recommend something like Raspberry Pi. The latest iteration is quite powerful and you can run Kodi there. There's a patch pending to support this fruit board in Guix :-) Patches to install guix system on Raspberry Pi [1] [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/2021-06/msg01228.html Petr
Re: Guix Home Entertainment SoC Media Server?
On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 04:06:56PM +0700, Blake Shaw wrote: > I just got a TV and want to put together a little SoC home media server for > it (perhaps with beaglebone black, as that appears to be the recommended > SoC for Guix). Has anyone had any experience with this? Thoughts? > I figure it could be a fun use of `Guix Deploy`, but I've never put > together a SoC media server before, so I'm not sure what packages to > peek at, or what "out of the box" (re: raspbian etc) options are > available. I think this would be a great project for Guix. It's something that Guix should be really good at, once all the wrinkles are ironed out. Although the BeagleBone Black is a very nice computer in many way, I do recommend against it for Guix System because our build farm support for its CPU architecture (armhf) is currently sub-par. And the BBB's CPU is optimized for low-power use, so building packages on it will be slow. I would search for a 64-bit ARM computer. That is, the "aarch64" CPU architecture. We have better build farm support and it will probably continue to improve.
Re: Guix Home Entertainment SoC Media Server?
Edouard Klein writes: thanks Edouard! I will definitely update this thread with my progress :) -- “In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni”
Re: Guix Home Entertainment SoC Media Server?
Hi ! It depends on how easy and integrated you want your experience to be ;) The raspberry pi is classic SoC to use for such a purpose, there are a lot of software and guides that you can use and take inspiration from for your project. In particular, the Retro-pi project will let you play classic games on a raspberry pi, and Kodi is a nice integrated media center distribution. Sadly: - the raspberry pi still uses some proprietary components that GNU Guix can not take into account (yet ?) - some features, especially games, are closed-source, so outside of the scope of GNU Guix. My advice would be to look at what people are doing on raspberry pies, and replicate what you need. >From a purely function over form perspective, I think you can replicate 90% of the features of Kodi with VLC. It can do streaming, can read any media format, and is globally awesome. Also take a look at https://gitlab.com/guix-gaming-channels/games for (sadly closed source, but what can you do ?) integrating video games in your Guix setup. Please post somewhere about what you do, this is an itch I intend to scratch someday and I'll be happy to read about your efforts, Happy hacking :) Edouard. Blake Shaw writes: > Hiya Guix! > > I just got a TV and want to put together a little SoC home media server for > it (perhaps with beaglebone black, as that appears to be the recommended > SoC for Guix). Has anyone had any experience with this? Thoughts? > I figure it could be a fun use of `Guix Deploy`, but I've never put > together a SoC media server before, so I'm not sure what packages to > peek at, or what "out of the box" (re: raspbian etc) options are > available. > > Seems like this could be some cool shoes for Guix to fill! > > ez, > blake
