Neuros Technology did it again: one more of their interesting media products hits the market, and this time it uses Linux. We used the Neuros OSD this past week and here's what we think about it.
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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).
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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))
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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.
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