On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:02:41PM +0000, Phil Endecott wrote: > For a while I have been planning to make some sort of "TV computer" i.e. DVB > recorder + DVD player + web video device etc. I was hoping to be able to wait > until there were easy hackable off-the-shelf ARM boxes to do this but I think > they are going to turn off my analogue TV signal in 3 days (!) and so it has > got > a bit more urgent (when does the new Doctor Who start???!). Has anyone here > tried to do this? > > If I look at packages.debian.org I can see that lots of things like vlc, > mplayer > etc. are available for arm* - but there's a difference between having built > successfully and actually working on real hardware at real data rates. So do > those packages know about e.g. video hardware features in any of the available > ARM hardware? > > I'm wondering if I can use a Pandaboard. It has plenty of video output > features > but it is a bit weak on the other connectivity - the DVD, DVB-T, disk and > ethernet would all be behind one USB hub. Tegra devices are a bit stronger as > they have mini-pcie which could be connected up to SATA, but I've not found > any > actually-available hardware that does that.
mythtv. It does pretty much all that. It's part of www.debian-multimedia.org's archives for debian. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
