http://www.osnews.com/story/18832/The_Linux-based_Neuros_OSD Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:12:48 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?280876 http://osnews.com/thread?280876 So I've read the review and some of their site, but I still have a couple of questions, mostly about integrating the OSD with MythTV. Sorry if the answers are in plain view, but we like to discuss tech anyway, right?
- Can it grab videofiles from an NFS or Samba share? It has a LAN connection, right? This way the OSD could function as a sexy frontend. It's certainly more attractive than the barebone I use now. The downside is not using the recording capability (unless it can also record to the NFS share, of course), but it's still not very expensive.
- Could it actually be configured as a slave backend to MythTV?

It reminds me of the squeezebox (with which I'm very happy).

Filip Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Filip) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?280877 http://osnews.com/thread?280877 It can use SMB, yes. I don't know about NFS and MythTV. Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?280889 http://osnews.com/thread?280889 I am lusting after a consumer device to replace my clunky, noisy old xbox with XBMC, but I haven't found one that can completely replace it yet. When I first found out about the OSD I feel in love - an open source company, encouraging people to develop for its little silent streaming box. It is a great product and one I am watching very closely, waiting for it to become what I would refer to as "stable enough to sit under my TV"... I'm not quite sure it has gone through enough UI and software revisions yet to quite replace the quite incredible XBMC Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JCooper) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?280896 http://osnews.com/thread?280896 I'm anxiously awaiting a FOSS-based set-top box around $200USD with Ethernet, USB, and TV-out that runs a web browser. Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (butters) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?280897 http://osnews.com/thread?280897 A web browser is useless without running HD on a big screen. And if you need that, there's always the PS3. Even Opera on 480p on the Wii doesn't have enough resolution to perform adequately. Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?280905 http://osnews.com/thread?280905 I Have my 32"LCD connected via VGA-cable to my desktop computer. Works great, at native resolution 1360x768. A cordless mouse+keyboard, and I can surf web, and watch everything on the harddrives, and command amaroK to play whatever I want. Dont really need and extra "set-top" box, just a graphics-card with dual connectors. (and nvidias binary driver, but thats another topic(using Linux))Edited 2007-10-26 09:02 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (parentaladvisory) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?280909 http://osnews.com/thread?280909 It's for an 85-year-old women with poor vision to use gmail with really big fonts on an old 27" CRT TV. And she doesn't know how to use a mouse. The most advanced conceivable use case is receiving an email linking to a YouTube clip of her great-grandchildren.

i.e. A WebTV replacement. Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (butters) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?280928 http://osnews.com/thread?280928 Good think you've finally noticed it, it's been selling for a looooong time.

Anyway, a very interesting product, still thinking of purchasing it but I don't really have the money.......... Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ido50) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?280984 http://osnews.com/thread?280984 I have an OSD and I love it!

I mount an NFS partition from my main computer on the OSD for playing movies. Everything runs smoothly. I had a large mythtv box before this and love the ease of use and size. The guys at Neuros are great too. Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kungfooguru) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?280995 http://osnews.com/thread?280995 Is it just me or does the main menu remind you of sony's menu for the psp and ps3. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Maybe I should just keep my mouth shut Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (w00dst0ck) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?281007 http://osnews.com/thread?281007 I'm in the same boat. There isn't too much on the market that can rival a properly configured XBMC setup. I have 2 xboxen for both my TV's, and both me and the GF just love them. I have tried Proper MCE 2005 boxes, MythTV, borrowed a friends 360, and they are all just missing something. The only downside is that XBMC only does 720p, but for the price, you can't complain about that too much. Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BluenoseJake) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?281165 http://osnews.com/thread?281165 As Eugenia pointed out in her review, the main feature of the device is to allow users to archive and consolidate all their video content (DVD, VHS tapes, TV shows)in the open MP4 format. Even the very capable Xbox with XBMC, despite a wider playback support, does not offer this unique recording feature.

Also, yes the OSD supports windows shares (SAMBA) and NFS (as kungfooguru mentioned above). Mac users use sharepoints to access their network shares. Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (funkyj) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?281285 http://osnews.com/thread?281285 I think I'll wait till they have 1080p, HDMI and S/PDIF covered. Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (John Nilsson) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?281592 http://osnews.com/thread?281592 hmmm ... but can you record TV / Video / DVD on a XBMC? As far as i understand you can only playback ... so the Neuros seems to do more. Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (searly) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?282019 http://osnews.com/thread?282019 It can mount NFS shares, but not from the GUI. You have to do it manually by telnetting into the box. If you use NFS, I'm sure you're skilled enough to do it
It also supports SMB shares, straight from the GUI.

You can playback and record to both (assuming permissions are ok on server side, clearly).

As for the MythTV, there's no explicit support for it right now. Suggestions on new features are always welcome, though.
For that, you can use the Neuros mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/Neuros-DM320Hardware or the forums from the main Neuros site. Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (nerochiaro) Comments