MPD on your Dreambox">mpd client

You want to use your Dreambox as Jukebox? Me too! I use a DM800 with the latest Newnigma2 image (v3.0) - but this should probably work on other distros as well. I use MPD as media player. First, add the unstable ...Read More

Running MPD on your Dreambox

DIVX Movies for your Dreambox">divx-2

The Dreambox DM800 cannot decode DIVX movies, because the is no HW support for it. However the DM800 can decode MPEG-2/H.264 streams in hardware. So I encode my divx movies as MPEG-2 file (the same format as DVD's use) using ...Read More

Encode DIVX Movies for your Dreambox

dm800

Get the latest Makefile from http://git.opendreambox.org/?p=obi/makefile-opendreambox.git and save it as Makefile-opendreambox-1.5. My settings: # target platform: dm500plus, dm600pvr, dm7020, dm7025, dm800, dm8000 MACHINE = dm800 BB_BRANCH = 1.4.2-git GIT_BRANCH = opendreambox-1.5 Make sure you don't have bitbake installed or you get fancy error messages like this: ERROR: ...Read More

Build a Dreambox image yourself

DIVX movies from the Dreambox to the XBOX360">

I want to watch some divx movies on my XBOX360 (without HDD). They are stored on a DM800 Dreambox (with HDD). First you need UShare v1.1a, the UPnP Daemon. I found a static compiled mipsel version here, which will run on ...Read More

Stream DIVX movies from the Dreambox to the XBOX360