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From: James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Software for LCD Data Center
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:34:41 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20110821T141456-417@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: DE9DCE12-DFD3-4D38-BA99-9368B3E47A2A@stellar.eclipse.co.uk

Stroller <stroller <at> stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes:

>  I wonder whether there is some way to connect my home 
> Gentoo server to the telly? Is there any linux 
> application/specific Samba configuration/...? 
> Have anyone tried anything similar?

Not yet. 

> DNLA is rubbish 

Prophetic response. DNLA is just another "vendor speak" where the 
manufacturer's  wants to lock you into using closed source options
where they have a vested financial interest in channeling your usage.
It's not intended for Linux folks to do as you please. Microsoft
or Apple tainted type of assimilation is the goal....


A possible coarse of action might be to apple to those fancy, vendor
intended services directly from your telly (like netflix). 
Then sniff the data traffic to figure out how the software works.
Find an open source equivalent and see if it works. Surely some
group of hackers are working on a solution to use those ethernet
ports on the newer Telly. I have an ethernet port on my newest
55" telly, but my experience is it takes tons of time in the
early days of such, before a viable (compatible) hack exist to
use the resource (in this case an ethernet on a telly) as
you please with linux. Or just monitor and search periodically
until some hack becomes available. I hope I'm wrong,
but this is the pattern that seems unchangeable and
adopted by most new manufacturers.

I just googled for "panasonic linux SOC" and found this
as a starting point for your research:

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Panasonic-UniPhier-MN2WS0220-/

The Arm Cortex A9 is a very common core
(System on a Chip) that runs embedded linux most of the 
time....

Happy Hunting,
hth,

pist: when you find a solution, do post back to us!

James








  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-21 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-20  9:40 [gentoo-user] Software for LCD Data Center czernitko
2011-08-20 16:17 ` Mick
2011-08-21  6:21 ` Stroller
2011-08-21 12:34   ` James [this message]
2011-08-21 13:07   ` Michael Mol
2011-08-24 11:57     ` czernitko
2011-08-24 13:44       ` Stroller
2011-08-24 13:45       ` Michael Mol
2011-08-25 16:13         ` czernitko

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