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KOS for standalone players
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 2:36 pm
by forart.eu
Modern standalone (HD-based) DVR/players are cheap and feature-rich enough, but their embedded OSes are are often very "basic".
Here's en examble of a cool box with poor soft:
Check out
its manual (pag. 9+) to earn its software poorness.
The idea: is it possible to port KOS on it (or similar players) ?
I believe that would be very interesting to have a cool open source OS, both for manufacturers (that could also economically sustain its development) and final users (that obtain a sort of "microPC" instead of just a player).
Do you agree ?
Re: KOS for standalone players
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:14 pm
by Gluk
а оно с интел-архетиктурой?
Re: KOS for standalone players
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:23 pm
by andrew_programmer
Re: KOS for standalone players
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:36 pm
by Gluk
зачем мне кулер?
Re: KOS for standalone players
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:48 pm
by art_zh
forart.eu wrote:Modern standalone (HD-based) DVR/players are cheap and feature-rich enough, but their embedded OSes are are often very "basic".
Here's en examble of a cool box with poor soft:
....
The idea: is it possible to port KOS on it (or similar players) ?
....
Do you agree ?
Actually, this sector is a consumer-aimed branch of more "serious" industrial embedded devices' mainstream.
It usually inherits a PowerPC or other cheap and straight-embeddeable platform with a U-boot bootloader and a minimalistic Linux engine.
In principle, we might build something like this when (and if) a stable "Embedded-KOS" version appears.
But I'm not sure about production price: x86 micro-ATX platforms are usually more expensive than those mini-boards
Re: KOS for standalone players
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:53 pm
by andrew_programmer
Portable DivX MPEG4 Player
EH-25MP
System requirements and specifications
Supported OS Windows 98/SE, ME, 2000, XP
Mac OS 10.2 or higher
Minimum PC
requirement
CPU: Intel Pentium III 500MHz
Memory: 128MB
USB port: USB 2.0 or USB
Из спецификации я так понял, что это x86.
Re: KOS for standalone players
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:59 pm
by art_zh
andrew_programmer wrote:
Из спецификации я так понял, что это x86.
Надо же!
А почему тогда IU нельзя было до ума довести?
Re: KOS for standalone players
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 9:07 pm
by andrew_programmer
Да ну пофигу на этот ящик. Всё равно не до него.
Re: KOS for standalone players
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 5:57 pm
by forart.eu
andrew_programmer wrote:
Portable DivX MPEG4 Player
EH-25MP
System requirements and specifications
Supported OS Windows 98/SE, ME, 2000, XP
Mac OS 10.2 or higher
Minimum PC
requirement
CPU: Intel Pentium III 500MHz
Memory: 128MB
USB port: USB 2.0 or USB
Из спецификации я так понял, что это x86.
Google-russian:
Нет, это те требования к системе для удаленного управления устройством.
Я думаю, все они основаны на ARM (например, Sigma Designs SMP8635)
Re: KOS for standalone players
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 6:32 pm
by forart.eu
Well, 'cause I know that an ARM port is pretty impossible, it would be great anyway to let Kolibri become an alternative solution to give a new (HTPC) life to dated 32-bit machines (sockets 370 and 462 CPUs).
MenuetOS64 already offers a
multimedia application, but a 32-bit/GPL version would be more useful, IMHO.