Re: [Mvpmc-devel] Secure streaming to MVP - openvpn, openssl, ssh

[Roger H. <ra...@wi...>]

Jakub Głazik wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Any luck on building OpenVPN for MVP?
> 
> I'm interested in secure streaming MPEG-2 content to MVP. I have a
> working solution based on OpenVPN and VNC and I wish to test it on MVP.
> 
> Has anyone cross-compiled OpenVPN and SSH on MVP? I'm in the middle of
> adding OpenSSL and OpenVPN to the SCons build system used for making
> the MVP dongle, but maybe some of you has experience in this so I could
> save some time? 
> 
> 

You do realize that the MVP is a 252Mhz PowerPC Processor and is
not even capable of using its own cpu to actually decompress video,
it has to use specialized MPEG1/2 hardware that it has built in.

I doubt that (if you can get it to fit in the MVP memory footprint)
that it can sustain a useful enough speed for any application
except ssh login.

I know that high speed processors top out at 20-30MB/second and that
is a processor that is at least 10-20x faster that the MVP's cpu.

Also right now the MVP is on the edge of being memory constrained,
having too many mythtv recording will push it over the edge fairly
quickly and require a reboot.

                             Roger