<a href="http://lundman.net/wiki/index.php/NetworkedMediaTank">http://lundman.net/wiki/index.php/NetworkedMediaTank</a><br><br>Would be nice if someone could completely open up the device.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 07/02/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Luca Olivetti</b> <<a href="mailto:luca@ventoso.org">luca@ventoso.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
El Thu, 7 Feb 2008 06:44:41 +0200<br>"Theunis Potgieter" <<a href="mailto:theunis.potgieter@gmail.com">theunis.potgieter@gmail.com</a>> escribió:<br><br>> On 06/02/2008, Luca Olivetti <<a href="mailto:luca@ventoso.org">luca@ventoso.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> > > for hdtv - no.<br>> > > I don't see the h.264 hardware decoding. mpeg4 is not h.264.<br>> ><br>> > Maybe this thing can be hacked to run vdr or to be used as a<br>> > front-end: <a href="http://www.popcornhour.com/">http://www.popcornhour.com/</a><br>
><br>> The popcornhour device (network media tank) is not linux :(<br><br>I read somewhere that it runs Linux, maybe they were wrong but I doubt<br>you can pack that kind of hardware and embed windows at that price<br>
point.<br>Of course the fact that runs linux (if it does) doesn't mean it's open:<br>as I already said these companies (sigma, broadcom) only take from<br>linux to reduce their development cost but never give back, not even a<br>
single line of specifications for their hardware.<br><br>Bye<br>--<br>Luca<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>vdr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:vdr@linuxtv.org">vdr@linuxtv.org</a><br><a href="http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr">http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr</a><br>
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