On 01/08/16 14:56, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 01:53:49PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
I could be wrong, but I believe the newer PVRs support MPEG4. Also,
we'll have to see what happens when IPTV arrives.
They do, but the old ones (of which there are a lot of users) do not.
Breaking the 4200/4250 and 8300 would not go over well.
old school...
http://www.cisco.com/web/consumer/support/settop_8300hddvr.html
The fun part of supporting this market (U.S.A.) was when a tech-savvy
customer would call in and want to know how to hook up an optional hard
drive for the DVR boxes...
Even more interesting was supporting the higher-end DVR technology from
Cisco...
Everything from install considerations to troubleshooting bizarre issues
made the job interesting to me.
new school...
http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/video/digital-encoders/7016667.pdf
Cisco did a lot of work on this line, I've never owned one, but there is
a lot of potential to do cool stuff.
see sites such as
http://www.dlna.org/
Also check out equipment/software from the folks who bring us NTFS-3g...
http://www.tuxera.com/markets/tv-set-top-box/
regards,
Daniel Villarreal
http://www.youcanlinux.org/
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