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Jun 16 04:28:00 <tonymy01> Interesting thread on a 8623 based unit here:  http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=852855&page=56
Jun 16 04:28:11 <tonymy01> quote: "And what is _really_ important is that only 8634/5 chip, but not 8622/3 one has a _real_ Linux OS (not ucLinux!) and _real_ memory management. Only this gives virtually unlimited possibilities for adding more and more "tasty" features in the future.
Jun 16 04:28:11 <tonymy01> (programming for 8622/23 chip is a real nightmare, believe me, I write software for both 8622 and 8634...)
Jun 16 04:28:11 <tonymy01> I know a company which tried to make a DVD player software for 8622 for a year and didn't succeed because of too many bugs in the h/w itself... So they just skipped this chip version and jumped from 8620 to 8634 directly
Jun 16 04:28:11 <tonymy01> (this company is mentioned several times in different threads on this site, but I will not confirm the name, so don't ask )
Jun 16 04:28:14 <tonymy01> "
Jun 16 04:28:49 <tonymy01> we might be flogging a dead horse trying to get Beyonwiz to get our unit behaving how we want
Jun 16 04:29:23 <tonymy01> this thread above has a lot of arguments about getting better mkv support, getting 1080p working properly etc etc
Jun 16 05:52:42 <peteru> Yeah, the 862x series have been obsolete even before Beyonwiz was available. Beyonwiz have done a pretty good job of pushing the 862x chipset into the DVB-T space, but I sure hope they have a design based on something better ready to be released.
Jun 16 05:55:35 <peteru> I think I've spotted some significant similarities between bits of the DVico firmware and Beyonwiz firmware. Similarities that could possibly mean that Steven Han (nazgul33) has been involved in both projects.
Jun 16 05:56:27 <peteru> I wonder if he contracts out to Korean companies that do Sigma Designs based devices.
Jun 16 05:56:50 <peteru> Perhaps his recent absence means he moved onto something else.
Jun 16 05:58:48 <peteru> I've got a fair few H.264 clips where the stream bitrate/complexity seems to exceed the capabilities of the Beyonwiz and the decoder loses the plot.
Jun 16 06:25:03 <tonymy01> Yeah, I think I found that  Tomacro (and Divico to a lesser extent) thread by googling one of the kernel messages
Jun 16 06:25:29 <tonymy01> google nazgul33 and he has had a lot of presence in a lot of places!
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