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On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Rob Beard wrote:
Hi folks, Just seen this on The Register... http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/05/review_media_player_hisense_1080p/It's a nice little MIPS based media player device for just over £60. According to the review it will play various different media types including OGG (no mention of OGG Theora video though).I've done a bit more digging and it appears it's Linux based. In fact there is a firmware update available which is a simple tar file.I'm wondering how if it's possible to cross-compile anything to run on this little box. It only has 16MB flash but it does have Ethernet and USB.
Nice little box...A tuned Linux kernel, statically built runs in about 1.5MB these days, what bulks it up is "userland". So if you don't need a shell, X window system, web browser, etc. then it's perfectly easy to do... Obvously this thing does have some sort of GUI, but direct framebuffer handling isn't that bad.
In some ways I feel it's a shame it's so cheap - it must be almost slave labour to produce something with that much in it for so little. It really can not be economically viable at that price. Better learn Chinese soon...
Gordon
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