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mitchell.gore at gmail

Mar 4, 2008, 7:53 PM

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SageTV HD Extender STX-HD100 (UPDATE!, With source code)

Hello,

I have been emailing SageTV about thier HD extender to get the source code
since mid December. I figured I would never get a response but after 5
emails reminding them Sage has delivered!

http://download.sage.tv/pubcode/Pullreader.tar.gz

http://download.sage.tv/pubcode/freetype-2.3.5.tar.bz2

http://download.sage.tv/pubcode/linux-2.4.26-em86xx-test.tar.gz

http://download.sage.tv/pubcode/busybox-1.7.2.tar.gz

http://download.sage.tv/pubcode/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz

http://download.sage.tv/pubcode/tremor.tar.gz

http://download.sage.tv/pubcode/ffmpeg.tar.gz

http://download.sage.tv/pubcode/libpng-1.2.20.tar.bz2

http://download.sage.tv/pubcode/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz

I am not really sure what I have here but I think things look good to run a
full MythFE on this. If this is possible it would be the ultimate addition
to MythTV, low power, silent, small form factor (well second to Hauppauge
Component capture card).

Would anyone with the skill to reverse engineer this box be willing to step
up and own this project? I am sure it would take much to get the community
to purchase a box for you!

Let the discussion begin!

Mitchell


simon.allcorn at gmail

Mar 5, 2008, 1:30 AM

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Re: SageTV HD Extender STX-HD100 (UPDATE!, With source code) [In reply to]

Interesting,

I've only had a quick poke about but they appear to be genuine source
tarballs. I've look at the busybox source and it's not a vanilla 1.7.2 tar
(the md5 doesn't match) and sure enough it's 1.7.2 based, but with sage
modifications !. They also appear to have done something else quite useful
:)

well done Mitchell

Simon


On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Mitch Gore <mitchell.gore [at] gmail> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have been emailing SageTV about thier HD extender to get the source code
> since mid December. I figured I would never get a response but after 5
> emails reminding them Sage has delivered!
>
> http://download.sage.tv/pubcode/Pullreader.tar.gz
>
> http://download.sage.tv/pubcode/freetype-2.3.5.tar.bz2
>
> http://download.sage.tv/pubcode/linux-2.4.26-em86xx-test.tar.gz
>
> http://download.sage.tv/pubcode/busybox-1.7.2.tar.gz
>
> http://download.sage.tv/pubcode/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
>
> http://download.sage.tv/pubcode/tremor.tar.gz
>
> http://download.sage.tv/pubcode/ffmpeg.tar.gz
>
> http://download.sage.tv/pubcode/libpng-1.2.20.tar.bz2
>
> http://download.sage.tv/pubcode/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
>
> I am not really sure what I have here but I think things look good to run
> a full MythFE on this. If this is possible it would be the ultimate
> addition to MythTV, low power, silent, small form factor (well second to
> Hauppauge Component capture card).
>
> Would anyone with the skill to reverse engineer this box be willing to
> step up and own this project? I am sure it would take much to get the
> community to purchase a box for you!
>
> Let the discussion begin!
>
> Mitchell
>
>
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mrand at pobox

Mar 6, 2008, 7:08 AM

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Re: SageTV HD Extender STX-HD100 (UPDATE!, With source code) [In reply to]

> > Would anyone with the skill to reverse engineer this box be willing to step
> > up and own this project? I am sure it would take much to get the community
> > to purchase a box for you!
>
> The ffmpeg modifications also look very interesting. There seem to be
> changes made to support the Sigma Designs EM8623L chip that provides
> hardware video processing. Also based on the name of the kernel src
> tar it seems it would have have the necessary modules to support the chip.
>
> Also here are more details on the hardware specs:
> http://www.shspvr.com/reviews/sagetv_hd_extender/sagetv_hd_extender.html
>
> And the decoder chip being used:
> http://www.sigmadesigns.com/public/Products/EM8620L/EM8620L_series.html

For anyone interested in doing the work, there are parts of other
Sigma Designs EM86xx source in the wild as well:

* http://mvixcommunity.com//showtopic.php?tid/363/fbb_session_id/47f9e0f5a7d0b343adbfbb65039f5206/
* http://www.geocities.com/em8620l/
* http://moviebeam.wikispaces.com/page/view/home/15317189
* which has pointers to several other places, especially
http://www.services.assmann.com/download/adm/GPL/

The first one appears to have a replacement development environment
since Sigma Designs SDK isn't widely available. I believe that a
backup copy of that development environment is here:
http://amd.co.at/anti/hd-player/programming/ (browse around other
directories - there are other interesting sources there as well).

Lastly, while I'm doing a brain dump on this topic, there is also a
large collection of random STB related stuff at
ftp://66.15.209.17/pub/ - but most of it appears to be for VIA-based
boards.

Marc
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