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

[Oliver Brandt <oliver_mlisten@gmx.de>]

Thinking about the whole thing a bit more, maby using some sort of
embedded linux system could be a soltion, too if you are planning to do
it the way I mentioned all the raw material would already be there for
linux... Maybe a very cheap epia-M board could be another good aproach 
if you have the server do the work and if via
would finaly help develop a driver for their mpeg decoder... EPIA-ME6000
for 139,00 Euro, a psu for 72,00 Euro (could be home build and save a
lot of money) and a little bit of ram 20 Euro. Still quite expensive...
Regards,
Oliver
> 
> Anyway, just some thoughs of mine on the whole thing:
> 
> - You should be able to add a DVD drive for playing DVDs, VCDs, CDs ...
> - The chip on the DXR3 is already supported through an opensource project
>   (as you all know) but it seams to be kind of hard to get information
>   from Sigma on their Chip that can do DIVX and once an new format comes
>   out we would pretty much have to start over adapting the project and
>   build new recivers. What I was thinking of is building a cheap reciver
>   using the chip used on the DXR3 (em8300 or what it was called) and
>   have one powerfull, with cheap standard hardware upgradeble server do
>   the work. This also saves mony if you have multiple recivers, one in
>   the living room, one in the bedroo, one in the kidsroo... 
>   Sascha Volkenandt's mplayer cluster plugin is pretty much
>   doing what we would need. It uses an mplayer on the server to transcode
>   the videostream into an (I'm not shure) mpeg1 or mpeg2 stream and
>   passes it into a fifo file wich is then played back at the client.
> 
> 
> Well, just my thoughts... I'd love to help with the project but I don't
> know how to programm. Sorry. But if there is anything else I can do I'd
> love to help!
> 
> Regards,
> 	Oliver
> 
> 
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