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> Do any of you know anything about this product?
>
> http://www.sigmadesigns.com/pdf_docs/rhapsody_brochure.pdf
>
> The brochure even says the development kit comes with linux
> drivers. With hardware mpeg-4 encoding and decoding, I would
> think you could get by with a very modestly powered PC. Perhaps
> one of the fanless epia boards would work.

Wow, looks really great! There is also a driver being written for the MPEG
2 compressor board from Hauppauge...

I have an older Hollywood plus card, decode quality was pretty good actually
(has anyone thought about whether this could be used with MythTv? Not sure
how the driver works, but it can handle mpeg4 as well as mpeg2.

According to the brochure linux support isn't just available, Its
required.

Ben

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Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 3:33 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: [mythtv-users] Rhapsody Card


Do any of you know anything about this product?

http://www.sigmadesigns.com/pdf_docs/rhapsody_brochure.pdf

The brochure even says the development kit comes with linux drivers.
With hardware mpeg-4 encoding and decoding, I would think you could get
by with a very modestly powered PC. Perhaps one of the fanless epia
boards would work.

--davidh

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After poking around a bit more on the sigma web site, and looking
at old news releases, it appears that the development kits costs
$5000. Yes, you read that right. Perhaps the price will come
down at some point.

--davidh

> > Do any of you know anything about this product?
> >
> > http://www.sigmadesigns.com/pdf_docs/rhapsody_brochure.pdf
> >
> > The brochure even says the development kit
> > comes with linux drivers. With hardware mpeg-4
> > encoding and decoding, I would think you could
> > get by with a very modestly powered PC.
> > Perhaps one of the fanless epia boards would
> > work.
>
> Wow, looks really great! There is also a driver
> being written for the MPEG 2 compressor board
> from Hauppauge...

Regardless of the price, it's a step in the right direction. Hopefully
we'll get more people writing linux drivers for their hardware mpeg-4
encoder cards.

-Mike

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From: Thczv F. Thczv [mailto:thczv@haddockfamily.org]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:20 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Rhapsody Card


After poking around a bit more on the sigma web site, and looking
at old news releases, it appears that the development kits costs
$5000. Yes, you read that right. Perhaps the price will come
down at some point.

--davidh

> > Do any of you know anything about this product?
> >
> > http://www.sigmadesigns.com/pdf_docs/rhapsody_brochure.pdf
> >
> > The brochure even says the development kit
> > comes with linux drivers. With hardware mpeg-4
> > encoding and decoding, I would think you could
> > get by with a very modestly powered PC.
> > Perhaps one of the fanless epia boards would
> > work.
>
> Wow, looks really great! There is also a driver
> being written for the MPEG 2 compressor board
> from Hauppauge...

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Well even so those are dev kits, not production cards. If you look at
what you get with that you get quite a bit even the hardware design
scematics for the pci card. The package is more aimed at people who want
to develop a hardware PVR using their stuff. If we have any good EE
people on the list we should get some people together and look at seeing
if we can come up with plans for a cheap(er) myth box (or myth box
specification and sell a version of the card we design) that uses the
general design of the Rhapsody card. Basically think of it as a Refence
design plus the tools you need to customize it to make your own flavor
of the card.

- john


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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@snowman.net] On Behalf Of Thczv F. Thczv
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 5:20 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Rhapsody Card


After poking around a bit more on the sigma web site, and looking at old
news releases, it appears that the development kits costs $5000. Yes,
you read that right. Perhaps the price will come down at some point.

--davidh

Actually, from the little bit that I understand about these things,
development kits are always outrageously priced. They're not meant to be
bought by the public. In this case, I suspect the development kit is targeted
at a company Foo that will make their _own_ pvr card (using the same chips);
the development kit exists so that Foo's programmers can start developing
software before its hardware engineers finish designing their pvr card.

So this development kit is a step in the right direction, but not a final
step.

Tom

On Wednesday 02 April 2003 04:20 pm, Thczv F. Thczv wrote:
> After poking around a bit more on the sigma web site, and looking
> at old news releases, it appears that the development kits costs
> $5000. Yes, you read that right. Perhaps the price will come
> down at some point.
>
> --davidh
>
> > > Do any of you know anything about this product?
> > >
> > > http://www.sigmadesigns.com/pdf_docs/rhapsody_brochure.pdf
> > >
> > > The brochure even says the development kit
> > > comes with linux drivers. With hardware mpeg-4
> > > encoding and decoding, I would think you could
> > > get by with a very modestly powered PC.
> > > Perhaps one of the fanless epia boards would
> > > work.
> >
> > Wow, looks really great! There is also a driver
> > being written for the MPEG 2 compressor board
> > from Hauppauge...
>
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