NeurosOsd

NeurosOsd about Improvements

about

The Neuros OSD is a phenominal device the genuinely lives up to its name (my media has never been more free). For a long time now I have been looking for a good way to stream content from my network to my TV. Mind you we have a relic of the Regan era, no cable, and no desire to change that. Still regardless of your setup the Neuros OSD really is a pretty sweet device. Since we don't get much content worth recording we solely use it to watch videos and TV shows we have on our network (connecting via samba). The Neuros is intuitive and easy to use, though I'd recommend setting up a samba user with a short username and simple/no password since its a PITA to enter credentials when you want to just watch a movie. I let a friend borrow it and he reported some issues with playing files from a samba share (despite being able to navigate to them) but I have yet to reproduce the issue.

It runs linux on a TI ARM/DSP SoC, 64MB ram, some amount of flash, NTSC/PAL video, ethernet... As expected the device is very hacker friendly and the IRC channel is fairly active. I've found the people there to be most helpful and informative though I have yet to do much of consequence with my neuros.

Improvements

There are things I'd like my neuros to do (whether or not I write them) and don't know that it does already. I admit it may do them and I just don't know it yet...

• Keep a 'recently played files' list
• Be able to store samba credentials in NVRAM/flash/eeprom/other (flat file ok? security risk for sure if the neuros isn't on a trusted network)

-- ChristopherPepe - 03 Sep 2007