--- Theunis Potgieter <theunis.potgieter@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxx > 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? ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
