Popcorn Hour / Networked Media Tank Drivers?

[zinger5]

Hi,

Any chance of releasing drivers for the Popcorn Hour / Networked Media Tank media players? They run on a 2.6.15 kernel.

Cheers,

zinger5

[Sundtek]

It would be possible yes.

But we would need some more details about the box. As far as we could figure out it's based on MIPS.
We currently have the driver work on x86(32/64 bit), ARM and PPC (eg. Playstation 3 first revision).

Maybe some Popcorn Hour customer can contact us directly. If everything goes well we might just have to build the driver for MIPS which would not be too much work.

Although since our engineers are currently busy with the next updates it might take 1 1/2 - 2 weeks for that.

Since one of our engineers found the Popcorn thread which was pointing out to an em28xx driver, please note that our work only supports Sundtek based devices.

[zinger5]

That sounds good - it seems the existing em28xx based TV sticks are a no go with the Popcorn Hour so one which has simple drivers dedicated to running on it would be very popular I think.

The toolchain for the Popcorn Hour can be downloaded at: http://www.networkedmediatank.com/download/firmware/nmt/gpl/ along with the kernel, etc used.

The NMT Wiki also has a load of information about the device and porting things over to run on it: http://www.networkedmediatank.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Would be very interested to see a dedicated TV Stick with drivers for the Popcorn Hour.

zinger5

[Sundtek]

It might be possible to speed up the Popcorn Hour Port if someone could provide a chroot development environment so we just have to compile the driver on it.

[zinger5]

Sorry for the late reply - for some reason I couldn't access the Sundtek site over the last week or two.

I'm not certain this is what you mean by a chroot environment, but there is a fully compiled Ubuntu 9.04 VMWare environment which has the NMT toolchain already compiled and ready for working with. It's at: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4955727

Was that what you needed?

cheers,

zinger5

[Sundtek]

This is all we need yes. We will check it next week.

[zinger5]

Hi,

I noticed MIPS support is mentioned in the newest driver so tried to execute the script on my Popcorn Hour A100 but no joy - it won't run the script and displays:

Code: [Auswählen]

: not founda_installer_10012.sh: line 7
: not founda_installer_10012.sh: line 10
/share/empia_installer_10012.sh: line 11: syntax error: unexpected "("

Anything I can try to get it working, or is it not going to run on the Popcorn Hour?

Thanks,

zinger5

[carelw]

maybe this is cuased by the different way dash and bash handle shellscript syntaxes.
If your /bin/sh is a symlink to dash, try "bash <script>" instead of executing it directly.

carel

[Sundtek]

The installer requires 'bash' popcorn hour probably only hosts busybox which is not really compatible with it.
You might try the split out MIPS package:
http://sundtek.de/support/installer_mips_100112.tar.gz (it's just the MIPS part of the installer not an installer itself)

unpack it into the root directory, for further instructions you can contact our support (skype - sundtek)

[ozone]

Hi,
anyone manage to make it work ?
thanks