--- Theunis Potgieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I recently learned of the iStar Mini HD
> https://www.istarhd.com/productpage/spec.html
>
> Also based on the Network Media Tank (NMT) from
> Syabas. Apparently it
> could use the same firmware from other suppliers
> like popcornhour.
> This machine has more RAM, but also not sure if one
> could add a dvb
> device, if you managed to get the dvb api on the
> machine (2.6.15-sigma
> preempt MIPS32_R2 32BIT gcc-4.0) Would it make sense
> to add a usb 2.0
> hub and if you could manage to add the drivers if
> the kernel doesn't
> support it already?
>
> It already has a built in IR, but only 1 usb port
> available.
>
> --
> Theunis
>
> On 29/02/2008, Laz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 27 February 2008 19:46:40 Artem
> Makhutov wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > has anybody thought of running VDR on OpenWRT?
> > >
> > > The Asus WL-500g Premium is an wlan access
> point with two USB 2.0 Ports.
> > > It has a 266 MHz Broadcom BCM94704 MIPS CPU and
> is running linux.
> > >
> > >
>
http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Asus/WL500GP
> > >
> > > It is possible to connect a harddrive and some
> USB DVB-S cards via USB
> > > to the access point.
> > >
> > > So VDR has to be compiled for the MIPS
> architecture.
> > >
> > > The benefit of an access point is that it makes
> absolutly no noice,
> > > is quite inexpensive and takes less
> electricity.
> > >
> > > It would be great if the access point could
> record videos on its harddisk
> > > and share them over network via samba or stream
> it...
> > >
> > > Is this possible? Any ideas?
> >
> >
> > Not exactly the same but I've had vdr running
> relatively successfully on a
> > Linksys NSLU2, a.k.a. Slug, which was running
> Debian:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2
> >
> > These have got an Intel XScale processor running
> at 133 MHz (underclocked from
> > 233 MHz) and a whole 32 MB of RAM (although it's
> possible to upgrade that
> > with some dubious soldering...).
> >
> > I had a USB external disk and a USB DVB card on
> it and I used it as a backup
> > system for when I went away.
> >
> > It worked reasonably well but the lack of RAM was
> a bit of an issue because it
> > would occasionally randomly kill processes due to
> a lack of memory!
> >
> > Overall, it worked but there's no serial port
> (well, no external serial port:
> > you can solder one on) so I couldn't get a LIRC
> remote detector on it. I
> > can't remember if I tried the remote detector on
> the USB card: probably not
> > because there's no video output so you wouldn't
> be able to see what you were
> > doing, anyway! I've never managed to get more
> than one USB DVB device to work
> > properly together for any length of time and a
> single DVB device would be
> > restrictive.
> >
> > I was setting timers using a script which
> converted dates and times into SVDRP
> > commands.
> >
> > There's also the MediaMVP which is a small (I
> think) MIPS system but that's
> > designed for this sort of thing so maybe not as
> interesting!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> > Laz
>
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The Syabas NMT clones like the istarhd look very
interesting.
Instead of running vdr on it, maybe just a vdr
front-end like vompclient used on the Hauppauge
MediaMVP?
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