>>i know it supports mpeg1/2 but not mpeg4.
>>mpeg4 -- is it not possible because of hardware issues or software issues ? I went to
>>the source forge site but couldn't find any explanation why the mpeg4 is not supported.
>
> It doesn't support it because the hardware doesn't have a built in mpeg4
> decoder and the cpu isn't fast enough to decode it by itself. The windows
> based software does it by transcoding it on the server and serving up mpeg2
> to the device.
>
> There has been talk by several people of working on a transcoding server
> that could convert a divx/xvid on the fly and feed mpeg2 to the mvp, bu so far
> noone has done it.
Has anyone got any details on the guts of the the Dedicated Devices Media Player?
I saw this at a distributor's annual expo show last week. While the server is not really all that interesting to us (~2500USD retail), the whole setup is the first commercial media server I'd actually consider offering to my less-than-discriminating distributed A/V clients. But I digress.
DDi partnered with Leviton and is using Leviton's US distribution. The rep I spoke with said the system is linux based. Retail on the player is 300USD.
I'll try to get a seed unit when I call the rep back and crack it open if someone hasn't already. I certainly wouldn't expect it to handle HD playback but as a remote frontend...that's a lot of connectivity on the back.
-- Meatwad
http://www.dedicateddev.com/products/dma/
Quick specs:
# Audio Format Support: MP3, Windows Media (WMA), WAV files; upgradeable for future audio formats
# Video Format Support: MPEG 1 (VCR, VCD), MPEG 2 (DVD) & MPEG 4; upgradeable for future video formats
# Photo Format Support: JPEG, BMP (Windows Bitmap), GIF, TIFF; upgradeable for future graphics formats
# Audio Output:
* Optical S/PDIF
* Coaxial S/PDIF (1x RCA)
* Stereo (2x RCA)# Video Output
* DVI (Digital Video Interface) (1x DVI)
* S-Video
* NTSC Composite Video (1x RCA)
* Component Video (progressive & interlaced)
* (YPbPr 3x RCA)# Network Interface Wired: 10/100 Base-T Ethernet interface _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
