(http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080729-neuros-open-set-top-platform-puts-linux-in-living-rooms.html)
Is Neuros's stuff available locally? A version that can receive (and record?) HD over cable would be interesting and maybe better value than Starhub's Hubstation. (I already have a DVR: why the h*** do I need to buy another one [Starhub's hubstation] just to receive a HD signal over cable?) ===== Neuros open set-top box puts Linux in living rooms By Ryan Paul | Published: July 29, 2008 - 09:30AM CT At the OSCON open source convention in Portland last week, Neuros CEO Joe Born explained how Linux-based embedded devices will bring open source to the set-top market and the consumer electronics space. He also demonstrated how to build applications for the Neuros OSD, his company's programmable DVR product. [...] The Neuros software platform is pretty darn cool. It's built on version 2.6.26 of the Linux kernel and uses VLC for its multimedia capabilities (more details about the VLC port are available at the Neuros open source blog). Neuros has legally licensed the codecs, so it can handle a variety of common proprietary formats. The middleware stack developed by Neuros is distributed under the GPL. Support for third-party application and service integration is extensive. The platform offers a D-Bus interface for controlling media playback and has a full API for managing scheduled recording. Neuros applications can be developed with Trolltech's Qt toolkit, which means that there is a clean glide-path for porting software from the desktop. During the presentation, Born showed how to use the Qt graphical interface designer on a laptop running Ubuntu to build a program, which he then cross-compiled and ran directly on the Neuros. The Neuros SDK provides a set of scripts that hide much of the complexity of cross-compilation, so the whole process was impressively seamless. [...] There is already a very real community forming around the device and it has some nice features, such as Last.fm integration and the Neuros web browser, that have been implemented by volunteer contributors and Google Summer of Code participants. I'm enthusiastic about the whole Neuros concept. I own the current model of the OSD and I'm really looking forward to the release of the next-generation product, which supports 720p and is housed in a mini-itx case. Born says that the 2.0 prototype units will be available for LinuxWorld, which is coming up next month. [...] ===== -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my Google Reader Shared SFAS links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/16851815156817689753/label/sfas) _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
