--- Theunis Potgieter theunis.potgieter@gmail.com 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 laz@club-burniston.co.uk 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
vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
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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