[vdr] Re: Hardware project: MPEG2 decoder with ethernet adapter

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Am Son, 2003-06-01 um 22.02 schrieb Tobias Haustein:

> 
> Is it really possible to connect a dbox2 to the ethernet and use it as
> frontend for vdr?

> As far as I know, a dbox, a playstation2, an Xbox and all
> that nice thingies cannot be used for that because you first have to add a
> mod chip and then get a special variant of linux etc. Thus making this
> approach complicated and expensive.


I don't have a Dbox2 myself, but sniffed a little bit around on
Neutrino-page.

The Dbox2 has an ethernet-interface and system is PPC. That means you
can use PPC-linux with the necessary drivers (given in linux or by the
Neutrino-project). The Dbox2 starts it's system from flash and I've read
something about a trick with shortening some pins to trick security lock
of Dbox2.

The linux-DVB -driver supports at least the tuner of the cable-version
of the Dbox2. And I think Neutrino uses DirectFB for displaying.

See www.dbox.info for further information.

With a output-plugin it should be possible to get complete VDR running
on a Dbox2. You could use Sascha Volkenandt's Client/Server-plugin
streamdev to connect to a VDR-server (and you have one tuner in the
box).

Rene



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