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?
Thanks, Artem
Artem Makhutov wrote:
has anybody thought of running VDR on OpenWRT?
Yes, I think it is possible. I once tried packaging VDR for openwrt but gave eventually up. There are some uClibc patches for VDR floating around, if you are interested I can get you the links. But first you should probably start packaging the dependencies like libcap for example.
- Jan
Jan Willies wrote:
Artem Makhutov wrote:
has anybody thought of running VDR on OpenWRT?
Yes, I think it is possible. I once tried packaging VDR for openwrt but gave eventually up. There are some uClibc patches for VDR floating around, if you are interested I can get you the links. But first you should probably start packaging the dependencies like libcap for example.
libcap is not essential for VDR operation, so you could just modify VDR to not use it.
It would be great if you could get it working, Nicolas Huillard, mentioned also the popcornhour device, which in turn also has a MIPS architecture according to: http://www.lundman.net/wiki/index.php/NMT:fuse
Perhaps as time permits, one could setup a wiki page with some detailed information. I'm interested in setting up such a device my self.
-- Theunis
On 27/02/2008, Artem Makhutov artem@makhutov.org 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?
Thanks, Artem
-- Artem Makhutov Unterort Str. 36 D-65760 Eschborn
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 06:38:53AM +0200, Theunis Potgieter wrote:
It would be great if you could get it working, Nicolas Huillard, mentioned also the popcornhour device, which in turn also has a MIPS architecture according to: http://www.lundman.net/wiki/index.php/NMT:fuse
Perhaps as time permits, one could setup a wiki page with some detailed information. I'm interested in setting up such a device my self.
I think it would be better to choose a 700 gE :
http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Asus/WL700gE
it has an internal HD and 64 Mb of ram.
I would also be happy to have VDR run on such a device :-)
Hi,
I'm also interested in this topic, although I'm looking for a really *embedded* device: Some newer LCD TV sets are internally based on Linux (yes right!), some even using the DVB API (for the internal DVB-T tuner). I'm currently trying to find out more about the firmware, but I hope it might be possible to run VDR right on a TV...
The devices I'm currently looking at are the Philips PFL97 Series and Sharp's XL2E Series. Sharp looks currently more promising, as the firmware upgrade file is a plain ELF executable, containing a 2.4 kernel with a lot of configured USB options. Philips on the other hand is already using a 2.6 kernel, but I haven't been able to extract anything useful out of the image. (Both kernels are Montavista and source code is available)
Both devices are also MIPS, so maybe we can get something done for the overall architecture.
AFAIK, there is already at least one embedded project working with VDR, namely the Open7x0 community running VDR on Siemens' Gigaset M7x0 boxes (also MIPS based): http://www.open7x0.org/arena/forumdisplay.php?fid=3 (in German)
Best regards, Christian
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
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
Le vendredi 29 février 2008 à 11:57 +0200, Theunis Potgieter a écrit :
How about Western Digital Mybook World Edition
- USB - EN 1000 - serial port on MB
Still has the 32MB RAM limitation. Debian has been installed in place of the stock linux. And there is 500/750/1000 GB of disk already in the box.
Tony
--- 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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