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Hi friends, I'm still here. And yes, I'm busy working on other projects. Marcjero thanks for mail and sorry for not replying. You are right that connecting an RPi or HTPC to HDMI input is by far simpler and better than finishing this project. That is why only few people are interested. smx: sources ...

Thanks for offering, kikoseis. I think we sure will need some more testers in the near future. Subscribe this topics, please.

For the moment I temporarily stopped the project - I'll be back soon... hopefully in couple of weeks.
Stay tuned.

A step towards HDMI input: test code can switch to HDMI and hardware control can set vsync rate to 50 or 60 Hz. Unfortunately when HDMI input is active, it is impossible to use STi7109 framebuffer for OSD. Original software uses OSD layer in MTK8226 over internal USB. I don't want to reimplement this.

juuso: look at wiki . Hope that new screenshots will make you happy. First tests of neutrino-mp: - works fast and fits into memory - nice graphics, sophisticated menu system - HD channels (H264 on DVB-T) does not work - FIXED - movie player does not play any video - FIXED - bad character set for cze...

I just compiled neutrino-mp. It looks VERY good... (I'll fix couple of trivial problems and then make photos - hopefully today)

Do you think you could enable zram in this kernel ? Could help if we are missing a bit of memory. Of course zram is consuming cpu but active applications only use a part of allocated memory so it could work pretty very well if we don't use swap too much... No, zram would just slow down the system. ...

HDMI inputs not yet handled.

I created a wiki page http://wiki.samygo.tv/index.php5/Open_s ... A7/8/9_SH4
We should add a todo list to wiki. HDMI handling, factory and user setting go to the top.

DVB-T support for showtime: my idea is to use tvheadend (dvb-t backend from Andreas ?man, author of showtime) and make a "shortcut" for local stream. So you can configure channels and access epg over tvheadend's web. When you start dvb-t in showtime, player will use stream in kernel dvb in...

First send ex-link output of tv-boot to my mail. I'll try to detect what parts are same and what are different. Then setup nfs share on a linux box. First try to load umicom.img - it is good test and you will need it for comfortable setting U-Boot environment. I'll pack current image and write some ...

Good news with showtime: graphic user interface is working. It was not easy - showtime normally uses 3D OpenGL. I tried with stgles library from duckbox project. The library is fake GL ES which "renders" only rectangles with 2D accelerator and DirectFB. Unfortunately it implemented only mi...