Linux-Powered PVR/Satellite Machine

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 10, 2002 @05:53PM from the even-just-the-divx-is-nice dept.

spicyjack writes "After reading this story, I thought this submit would be appropriate. A German company called Dream-Multimedia-TV has come up with a schweet custom box targeted for the PVR/Satellite markets. How about a machine with a 250Mhz IBM PowerPC, 2 SmartCard readers, one CompactFlash slot, UDMA66 IDE, MPEG2 support with MPEG4 (DivX) support on the way, Ethernet, LCD display, SPDIF out, yada yada yada (zipped User's Manual). Oh, and it is built specifically to run Linux. Available right now. Commence hacking!"

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250MHz and DivX? by Gaima · 2002-12-10 18:03 · Score: 2, Redundant

Not wanting to dis the box at all, it looks damn cool, and I want one! But, isn't 250MHz just a little slow for mpeg4/divx encoding?
I remember reading about how, after lots of Intel tinkering, a 2GHz (ish) P4 could do realtime DivX encoding.
Maybe they'll use some specialist MPEG hardware...