Re: [opensuse] low cost PC with a RS-232 port? Possibly an ARM?

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Per Jessen wrote:

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On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Per Jessen wrote:

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If you want an interesting 100% silent computer for a livingroom media centre, check out the MK808 (search for it on Amazon). Runs Android, and is the size of a USB stick. HDMI out, USB powered (so if you've got USB on your TV, you can power it direct from the TV). I've got one, and with XBMC, it's pretty good (especially for the price).

EUR70 - yes, that's not bad. Does it do full-HDTV ? I'l have to try out this XBMC thing, I guess it works with MythTV too?

If you look around a little, you should be able to get it for closer to 45 Eur (I got mine, non-Bluetooth version, out of the NL, and that's what I paid). The HDMI output is 1080p,, so that counts as full HD.

There is a MythTV Frontend for Android. I've never tried it since XBMC works good enough with my local network (media on NAS, XBMC as the player/indexer), and it has plugins for various streaming services over the internet (1channel for example).

Do you watch TV on it? That would be my main objective.

Define TV. I do not have local cable TV (too expensive for what you get, only available in German which I don't speak/understand, and then I'd have to pay the TV tax), nor do I have DVB-T/C/S for the same reasons. TV for me is either what I've got in my personal collection on the NAS drive, or online streamed from 1channel.ch and other similar sources (eg VPN so YouTube movies, Hulu, BBC iPlayer etc are available)

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It's not.. perfect. If you try to push high bit rate (like BlueRay content) through it, it will struggle.

Ah, well, that does it - isn't Blu-ray content = HDTV?

I'm thinking more along the lines of the 35 to 40 GB BR Rips. The bitrate is high, and most lower end computers can't deal with the content unless it's downsampled.

need Blu-ray, but my current mediacenter box won't do HDTV and won't work with an upgraded videocard. I don't have a particular desire for HDTV, but I have to program MythTV to avoid recording anything in HD, which is a bit of a hassle.

I've not had to explicitly avoid HD content. I have played BBC iPlayer content with it.. and I think it was the HD version. I think. C. -- openSUSE 12.3 x86_64, KDE 4.10 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org