Devan Lippman wrote:
On 11/15/05, *Josh Burks* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
On 11/15/05, Tom Lichti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
>
> >Anybody know anything about this? It says it runs uClinux...
> >
> >
http://www.pcmicrostore.com/partdetail.aspx?q=p:10503269&SSAID=137667
<http://www.pcmicrostore.com/partdetail.aspx?q=p:10503269&SSAID=137667>
> >
> >
> No network interface is a big downside. If someone hacked the
firmware
> to allow USB based NIC's, it could work. Plus it doesn't come
with a
> hard drive, so you'd need to buy that. I'm having a hard time
figuring
> out the actual market for this...
>
Here's the offical site: http://www.galaxymetalgear.com/Tvisto.htm
<http://www.galaxymetalgear.com/Tvisto.htm>
Looks like it's designed to be a standalone player, where you have to
connect it to your computer and download content onto it. Then you can
carry it to your tv to play back your content. Basically it's a video
ipod, without the screen and a (possibily) larger hard drive.
Maybe people would like to load it up with their favorite media and
take it grandma's house...?
Josh
Actually with a USB NIC this would make a pretty sweet diskless
frontend. Not as pretty as the Roku, but it DOES support MPEG4 which
to me is big. Not sure what it takes to get myth frontend to compile
against uClib or what you could run for a framebuffer (DirectFB or X).
--
Thanks,
Devan Lippman <devan at lippman dot net>
It does not support MPEG4 H.264 which will be used for broadcasting in
Europe, and most likely also China.
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