Neuros OSD Review 55
An anonymous reader writes "The Neuros OSD promises a lot — it claims to be the first open source Linux-based embedded media center and it "records video and links your PC, portables and entertainment center". Bold claims, but can it live up to them? Linuxlookup.com has a two page review of the Neuros OSD."
No 16:9? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:All I can say is... (Score:2, Informative)
At $230, it doesn't look like it's breaking the bank for a DVR...until you realize that it doesn't include a hard disk! It also doesn't record HD video. At that price, it seems like it should do one or the other.
First? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:First? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:No 16:9? (Score:4, Informative)
Doesn't take much to support 16:9. Also is effortless to support most sets with HDMI and distinct audio ports with a DVI-HDMI cable.
I have a diskless mythfrontend on my TVs HDMI port, running 1280x720, and the backend has an HD Tuner. Absolutely beautiful.
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Ask someone who knows... (Score:4, Informative)
Neuros bought most of the video codecs and Linux BSP from a third party. How do I know? - I was an engineer for said third party, and wrote/developed a few of the modules for this platform. In fact, I'm intimately familiar with the video and audio playback code.
That said, I have a few comments:
The sound and video often get very out of sync and sometimes the video judders, or slows to get back to where it should be...[emphasis added]
First of all, I had not observed this at all when using a pristine source. We did recognize that our coping mechanisms would produce a similar result if the incoming source had missing frames or audio, etc...
In fact A/V sync was one of the enduring problems on which I worked during my tenure. Suffice to say, we chose to gradually pull audio and video back in sync when sync was lost because our clients complained that the alternative appeared too jittery. Unlike other vendors, we could present acceptable quality playback with as much as 1/4 of the frames missing from the input stream. Most other encoders/decoders would produce a noticeable, annoying frame-jitter whenever there was a loss of either audio or video.
But, aside from that, here are some more things the article failed to mention:
Hope this helps.
I do feel some connection to this project because I did a lot of work on this platform. Truth be told, I'm thinking of buying one just for sentimental reasons; unfortunately, my company didn't hand out samples. I do know quite a bit about the BSP, and would be happy to answer any questions regarding the platform that I can.