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Set top box for Miro?
Having just discovered Miro, I am becoming evangelical about it and planning to demo it everywhere, and to encourage my friends who have public access tv shows to start putting their show up on blip.tv and then start a Miro channel.
I use a inexpensive DVI to video adapter from my laptop to tv set in the living room. What is really needed is a set top box. I looked at the Popcorn Hour. It looks like I might be able to add a hard drive to the unit and access it remotely with Miro. Has anyone done this? Regardless, that won't give me the Miro interface on my tv. It has a built-in torrent program --it uses Vuze-- and is able to access Youtube and some others, but the unit's internal download capability I am guessing is limited to the torrents through Vuse.
According to reviews I have read, the video quality from the decoder chip is very good. it works with many different codexes and only rarely will it not be able to play a file.
It apparently does not have the TiVo like control and channels that Miro does. So it is not ready for prime time in my opinion.
I believe I read a post on some forum that the processing power is not sufficient to run a program like Miro --that if it worked at all, it would be painfully slow.
The newest model is a board that appear to be for tinkering. It is not cheap after you puy the case and hraddrive.
I use a inexpensive DVI to video adapter from my laptop to tv set in the living room. What is really needed is a set top box. I looked at the Popcorn Hour. It looks like I might be able to add a hard drive to the unit and access it remotely with Miro. Has anyone done this? Regardless, that won't give me the Miro interface on my tv. It has a built-in torrent program --it uses Vuze-- and is able to access Youtube and some others, but the unit's internal download capability I am guessing is limited to the torrents through Vuse.
According to reviews I have read, the video quality from the decoder chip is very good. it works with many different codexes and only rarely will it not be able to play a file.
It apparently does not have the TiVo like control and channels that Miro does. So it is not ready for prime time in my opinion.
I believe I read a post on some forum that the processing power is not sufficient to run a program like Miro --that if it worked at all, it would be painfully slow.
The newest model is a board that appear to be for tinkering. It is not cheap after you puy the case and hraddrive.
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Inappropriate?Another option would be integration with something like MythTV -
Inappropriate?I am thinking this as a solution....
Get a HDMI-out on your PC or somehow send on USB2 (it has the bandwidth)
Is there a clicker available for such a configuration?
It would be nice to multiplex a universal remote controllers 'Base" configuration of IR pulses so that a simple IR receiver could then transfer the pulses back along the USB/HDMI cable to the PC for receipt and the software would respond accordingly.
Basic would include channel# and other menu like functions.
Advanced would be future schedule scanning and it would be really awesome to configure it to PVR on your hard drive!
...now if this never occurred to you, then you better go register it at the patent office now....I mean fast! oh and make me a partner :)
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Inappropriate?Well, I wrote and lost what I wrote while trying to authenticate. Very rudely, this forum won't let you go back and copy text once you hit the submit button.
I'll check out myth tv.
I've looked at popcorn hour but it doesn't have enough cpu power to run Miro if you could somehow get itv to run off the USB stick. Whether it could be further modified, maybe, but with the tinkere's editional already up there in total cost, it might be cheaper to but a used Mac Mini, though that is still way to pricey.
Total price should be under $200.
So what will work for a used computer that is compact in size, preferably energy efficient, and either already has enough cpu power and bus speed to decode most video thrown at it or perhaps not quite up to snuff but with a card with a decoder chip?
I am attracted to the idea of talking with those that tinker at a local non-profit used computer shop to see if we could come up with that is workable so folks in my community, many of them with limited resources, don't need to dedicate their laptops as media servers. Indeed, what we need to really make Miro move is the $200 solution that doesn't require a compute --something with a decoder chip and just enough to run the Miro interface.
Possibly there needs to be a specially compiled version of Miro to run on such a device, and then there would be the matter of firmware updates. It is not seem a simple undertaking.
I'm sure a Mac Mini for $500 would do the trick, as long as it had DVI. I don't even have the HD set, so I am watching in std definition with a DVI to composite video adapter. I think having the HD set is most important to read the text on the Miro interface, so this may not work terribly well for me right now, but ithere is a good chance that by February there will be a new t.v. set in my household. -
Inappropriate?I run Miro on my mac mini hooked up to an HDTV, but there are still the problems of Miro not supporting the Apple Remote or having a 10-ft UI like Front Row. Those are key hurdles (easily done im guessing) to greater adoption of Miro as THE program to run on your HDTV-connected computer. -
Inappropriate?Why bother with MythTV when you can have Boxee?
