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Gordon Henderson wrote:
LOL. Yeah I was poking around a bit with the firmware, it looks like it can do a fair few things if it has the right hardware. I'm thinking for playing HD media without having to stick on either the PC, or the PC and the stupidly noisy XBOX360 then it has to be worth 60 quid.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
I dare say I could probably stick all the media I want on a USB hard drive and then just run it off this little box. According to the instructions it uses about 18 watts when in use and under 4 watts when in standby mode. God knows what the PC and/or XBOX use, I dare say it'll probably be more like 10 times that.
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