Re: shuttle vfd infrared receiver?

[Eric J. <al...@xm...>]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:57:23 +0100
Duncan Webb <dun...@li...> wrote:


> AFAIK, Shuttle don't bother installing an IR device, in their VFD.


   Really? Then why did it come with an IR remote that worked just fine
in XP-MCE? 

   The guy who wrote the SetVFD script says the Cypress usb chip they
used has an IR interface, so I'd presumed that it was part of that
device. 


> Basically what Shuttle call a Media Center is a games machine with a
> front panel display. They have even used the wrong chip to drive the
> display, a chip designed for two text lines and the top line is a set
> of icons, funny trying to scroll the display as if scrolls the icons
> too.


   Well, it's a Core2Duo at 1.8ghz, 400gb sata-300 hd, a geforce 6600-le
(which aint much for gaming, great for tv-out up to HD levels), an
AverMedia A180 HDTV tuner (which works in linux), an ATi Theater 550 Pro
PVR card (which doesn't work in linux), and on-board audio capable of
bit-perfect spdif in and out at 44.1, 48, 96, and 118khz, as well as a
full set of analog inputs and outputs. 

   It's got MythTV running on it right now, with with the HD tuner. I
may stick another HD tuner in it, having taken out the ATi card. Or
maybe my pvr350.